US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS on Oct. 27 for "Dual mode structured light camera" (British, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,276, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore) and SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Dual mode structured light camera" was invented by Gaetan Marti (Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland), Darren J. Wilson (Hull, Great Britain) and Daniel Farley (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual mode surgical imaging system for hybrid navigation. The imaging system can include a housing, a first camera configured for visual light, a second mono or stereo camera configured for IR, and a structured light generator configured to identify d...