ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,916, issued on March 17, was assigned to Novarad Corp. (Provo, Utah).

"Collaboration using AR headsets" was invented by Wendell Arlen Gibby (Mapleton, Utah), Steven Todd Cvetko (Draper, Utah), Joel Steven Lyons (Springville, Utah) and Garrett David Roberts (American Fork, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is described for a method of enabling a joining user to share a collaboration group, which includes at least one collaboration user. The collaboration group may jointly view an image data set aligned with a body of a person using AR headsets. The method may include detecting a topology of an operating room using a sens...