US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 11 for "Anatomical tracking using optical and non-optical sensors" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,494, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Anatomical tracking using optical and non-optical sensors" was invented by Chunwu Wu (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical systems and methods involve an anatomy tracker to be coupled to a patient anatomy. The anatomy tracker includes optical markers and a non-optical sensor. A navigation system includes a camera unit that can track a pose of the anatomy tracker based on optical detection of the optical markers. The navigation system detects a condition wherein at least one of the optical markers is blocked from optical detection by the camer...