US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations on June 2 for "Technique for determining a trajectory defined by an elongated member placed in bone" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,562, issued on June 2, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).

"Technique for determining a trajectory defined by an elongated member placed in bone" was invented by Florian Herrmann (Schwanau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented technique of determining a trajectory defined by a guide wire or other elongated member is presented. A method implementation of the technique in one variant comprises obtaining image data representative of a guide wire placed in a bone, processing the image data to determine an extension of the guide wire, and selecting a portion of the guide wire ...