ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,446, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to ORTHOSOFT ULC (Montreal).
"Computer-assisted surgery with electromagnetic tracking" was invented by Ramnada Chav (Laval, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a system for tracking at least one tool relative to a bone in computer-assisted surgery. The system generally has a processing unit; and a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the processing unit and comprising computer-readable program instructions executable by the processing unit for: continuously emitting an electromagnetic field in a surgical volume incorporating at least one electroma...