US Patent Issued to Stryker on Dec. 2 for "Surgical systems and methods for dynamic virtual boundary adjustment" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,984, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Surgical systems and methods for dynamic virtual boundary adjustment" was invented by David G Bowling (Los Ranchos De Albuquerque, N.M.), John Michael Stuart (Rio Rancho, N.M.), Jerry A. Culp (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Donald W. Malackowski (Schoolcraft, Mich.), Jose Luis Moctezuma de la Barrera (Freiburg, Germany), Patrick Roessler (Merzhausen, Germany) and Joel N. Beer (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical navigation system and method of operating the same involve a pointer tool and a localizer configured to track the pointer tool. Controller(s) ...