US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods for augmented reality assisted trauma fixation" (Tennessee, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,480, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.), Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) and Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for augmented reality assisted trauma fixation" was invented by Joseph Michael Ferrante (Bartlett, Tenn.), Charles Christopher Heotis (Germantown, Tenn.), Namal Nawana (Weston, Mass.), Constantinos Nikou (Monroeville, Pa.), Daniel Farley (Memphis, Tenn.) and Brian W. Mckinnon (Arlington, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and devices for performing computer-aided surgical navigation. Specifically, a sys...