US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations on June 3 for "Technique for determining a position of one or more imaged markers in an image coordinate system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,146, issued on June 3, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).

"Technique for determining a position of one or more imaged markers in an image coordinate system" was invented by Florian Herrmann (Schwanau, Germany) and Hans Schoepp (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for determining a respective position of one or more markers in a 3D image coordinate system are provided. A plurality of image data sets taken from a 3D volume in which an object and one or more markers are disposed. The 3D volume comprises a central volume containing at least a portion of the object ...