US Patent Issued to Stryker European Operations on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for calibrating a tracking array" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,277, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).

"Systems and methods for calibrating a tracking array" was invented by Fadi Ghanam (Schallstadt, Germany), James G. Walen (Portage, Mich.), Clifford Edwin Lambarth (Portage, Mich.) and Caleb Gossens (Ravenna, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A navigation system for navigating a medical instrument is provided. The system includes a localizer, a tracking array, and a processor. The tracking array has a first tracking face and a second tracking face which are coupled to one another and collectively include a plurality of optical tracki...