US Patent Issued to X-Nav Technologies on April 7 for "Method for optically calibrating an instrument drill tip" (Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,153, issued on April 7, was assigned to X-Nav Technologies LLC (Lansdale, Pa.).

"Method for optically calibrating an instrument drill tip" was invented by Scott A. Merritt (Green Lane, Pa.), Justin Blaber (Lowell, Mass.) and Sarah O'Brien (Pottstown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual guidance system for use in a surgical procedure include a calibration operation of a tip of a surgical drill. In particular, the system includes capturing images of a drill tip and generating a reconstruction volume shape of the drill tip to enable tracking of the drill tip. The system captures images of the drill tip in tilting motion to deter...