US Patent Issued to Intellijoint Surgical on March 31 for "Devices, systems and methods for natural feature tracking of surgical tools and other objects" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,953, issued on March 31, was assigned to Intellijoint Surgical Inc. (Kitchener, Canada).

"Devices, systems and methods for natural feature tracking of surgical tools and other objects" was invented by Andre Novomir Hladio (Waterloo, Canada), Armen Garo Bakirtzian (Kitchener, Canada) and Richard Tyler Fanson (Stoney Creek, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and devices for use in tracking are described, using optical modalities to detect spatial attributes or natural features of objects, such as, tools and patient anatomy. Spatial attributes or natural features may be known or may be detected by the tracking syste...