US Patent Issued to nView medical on May 26 for "Surgical navigation system with distributed patient reference tracking" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,117, issued on May 26, was assigned to nView medical Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Surgical navigation system with distributed patient reference tracking" was invented by Cristian Atria (Salt Lake City), Luke Newmeyer (Sandy, Utah), Lisa Last (Holladay, Utah) and Keith Nelson (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-rigid anatomy reference system can include reference markers that are rigidly attachable to separate bodies of rigid tissue connected through flexible tissue in a region of a patient forming a marker array. A tracking system can acquire movement data of the reference markers as a function of time and position. A proc...