ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,124, issued on June 3, was assigned to Mobius Imaging LLC (Shirley, Mass.).

"Methods and systems for performing image registration in a computer-assisted surgery system" was invented by Gordon Row (Groton, Mass.), Kyle Schwartz (Somerville, Mass.), Stephen Lang (Hollis, N.H.) and Edward Daley (Maynard, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system including a patient tracker and a tracking system. The patient tracker is adapted for attachment to a patient, and includes a hybrid marker having a radiological marker contained within an optical marker. The tracking system tracks the hybrid marker. A computing device obtains a thr...