ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,503, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Medivis Inc. (New York).

"Ultrasound landmark registration in an augmented reality environment" was invented by Danilo Gasques Rodrigues (Jersey City, N.J.), Osamah Choudhry (New York), Christopher Morley (New York), Long Qian (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Joseph Benjamin Horowitz (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are directed to generating a contour object for a region of interest represented by medical data corresponding to internal anatomy of a patient. Respective display coordinates are determined by performing a transformation on the medical data of the contour object. Th...