US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 18 for "High bandwidth and low latency hybrid communication techniques for a navigation system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,455, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"High bandwidth and low latency hybrid communication techniques for a navigation system" was invented by Donald W. Malackowski (Schoolcraft, Mich.), Paul Hoekstra (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Matt Shinew (Ada, Mich.) and Chunwu Wu (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical tracker and method of operating the same involve the surgical tracking including one or more tracking markers, a radio frequency (RF) transmitter, an infrared (IR) receiver, and a tracker controller coupled to the RF transmitter and the IR receiver. The tracker controller obtains sensor...