ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,838, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to LEM Surgical AG (Bern, Switzerland).
"Single origin marker assemblies and methods for their use" was invented by Yossi Bar (Muri bei Bern, Switzerland), Lior Kimron (Muri bei Bern, Switzerland) and Matvey Rzhavskiy (Muri bei Bern, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated marker system used for registration of a pre-operative images with a surgical robot and subsequent robotic navigation during a robotic surgical procedure in includes a registration marker removably pre-attached to a navigation marker in a predetermined relative orientation. The integrated marker system may be ...