US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on Dec. 16 for "Marker for tracking objects in medical procedures" (American, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,161, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Marker for tracking objects in medical procedures" was invented by Paul Alexander Torrie (Marblehead, Mass.), Philip A. Cormier (Newburyport, Mass.), Rafal Z Jezierski (Candia, N.M.), Nathan Zamarripa (Kittery Point, Maine), Luis Carlos Fial Teixeira Ribeiro (Coimbra, Portugal) and Rui Jorge Melo Teixeira (Tondela, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tracking objects in medical procedures. At least one example is a method comprising: retaining a bon...