US Patent Issued to Verdure Imaging on July 21 for "Apparatus and method for tracking hand-held surgical tools" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,600, issued on July 21, was assigned to Verdure Imaging Inc. (Stockton, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for tracking hand-held surgical tools" was invented by Christopher Schlenger (Stockton, Calif.) and Tamas Ungi (Kingston, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining location and orientation of a hand-held surgical tool is provided. One embodiment captures first image data that includes images of a first optical target on the hand-held surgical tool and a second optical target on a patient. Location and orientation of the first optical target in a 3D space is determined based only on the first image data. Current location and ...