US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations on June 16 for "Surgical reference body for referencing a patient's anatomy during surgery" (German, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,625, issued on June 16, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).

"Surgical reference body for referencing a patient's anatomy during surgery" was invented by Jakob Kemper (Heemstede, Netherlands), Lars Metz (Kiel, Germany), Ulrich Hoffmann (Breisach, Germany), Fabian Huegle (March, Germany) and Bernd Simon (Kiel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical reference body, surgical guiding device, and surgical tracking system, and in particular to a surgical reference body, a surgical guiding device, and a surgical tracking system allowing an improved localization of surgical components."

The pat...