ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,879, issued on April 14, was assigned to KOREA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND BUSINESS FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method and device for providing surgical guide using augmented reality" was invented by Hijin You (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for a surgical guide using augmented reality (AR) is disclosed. The surgical guide method using AR includes obtaining an image showing a surgery subject by using a camera of a wearable device worn by a user, recognizing a marker predefined in the image, determining expression attribute information of a three-dimensional (3D) image model to be projected on...