US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Dartmouth College on Sept. 22 for "Surgical navigation with stereovision and associated methods" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,739, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.).

"Surgical navigation with stereovision and associated methods" was invented by David W. Roberts (Lyme, N.H.), Keith D. Paulsen (Hanover, N.H.), Alexander Hartov (Enfield, N.H.), Songbai Ji (Hanover, N.H.) and Xiaoyao Fan (Lebanon, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical guidance system has two cameras to provide stereo image stream of a surgical field; and a stereo viewer. The system has a 3D surface extraction module that generates a first 3D model of the surgical field from the stereo image streams; a registration module for co-regis...