US Patent Issued to SMITH & NEPHEW, SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods for fusing arthroscopic video data" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,222, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SMITH & NEPHEW INC. (Memphis, Tenn.), SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG (Zug, Switzerland) and SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Systems and methods for fusing arthroscopic video data" was invented by Nathan Anil Netravali (Littleton, Mass.), Vaibhav Srivastava (Andover, Mass.) and Paul Alexander Torrie (Marblehead, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for fusing arthroscopic video data are described. A system comprises an arthroscopic assembly, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) mounted on the arthroscopic assembly, a processor, and a processor-readable storage medium. A...