US Patent Issued to METAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTRE on March 17 for "Three-dimensional real-time positioning compensation method for surgery" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,682, issued on March 17, was assigned to METAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Three-dimensional real-time positioning compensation method for surgery" was invented by Po-Chi Hu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chin-Chung Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chieh-Hua Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Wen-Hui Huang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Yan-Ting Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional real-time positioning compensation method for surgery includes: obtaining an initial posture of each of a plurality of marking devices in a surgical image in a world coordinate system; performing brightness normaliza...