US Patent Issued to NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED, MAINTAINING THE HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY on Dec. 23 for "Radiologically navigated intra-operative spinal guidance system" (New York, North Carolina, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,161, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED, MAINTAINING THE HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY (New York).

"Radiologically navigated intra-operative spinal guidance system" was invented by Frank Schwab (Oldwick, N.J.), Frank Kosarek (Charlotte, N.C.) and Virginie Lafage (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes accessing ultrasound data encoding 3D surface information of one or more body structures in a region, extracting a first 3D surface representation of the one or more body structures based on the ultrasound data, accessing non-ultrasound imaging data obtained ...