ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,425, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to metamorphosis GmbH (Altenbeken, Germany).

"Artificial-intelligence-assisted surgery" was invented by Arno Blau (Staufen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Supported by artificial intelligence, an object is classified in an X-ray projection image. A 3D representation as well as a localization of the classified object can be determined by matching a model of the classified object to a visualization of the classified object in the X-ray image."

The patent was filed on Nov. 25, 2019, under Application No. 17/309,397.

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