US Patent Issued to Stryker on June 16 for "Trajectory guidance of hand-held surgical tools during a surgical procedure" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,627, issued on June 16, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Trajectory guidance of hand-held surgical tools during a surgical procedure" was invented by Rahul Sharma (Gurgaon, India) and Gaurav Chandra Pant (Distt-Almora, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system for operating on a bone of a patient is described. The surgical system may include a surgical instrument that features a camera and/or an inertial measurement unit. The surgical system may further include a control system to superimpose virtual representations on a medical image based on the output of one of the camera and the inertial measurement u...