US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on June 9 for "Technique for optical guidance during a surgical procedure" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,814, issued on June 9, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Technique for optical guidance during a surgical procedure" was invented by Kaloian Petkov (Lawrenceville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical guidance is provided during a surgical procedure. Data indicative of an anatomical structure in relation to a surgical procedure is received. An overlay image of the anatomical structure is generated from the received data. A background structure serving as a background for the generated overlay image of the anatomical structure is determined. The generated overlay image of the anatomical structure is ...