MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517044351 A) filed by Verdure Imaging, Inc., Stockton, U.S.A., on May 7, for 'apparatus and method for tracking hand-held surgical tools.'
Inventor(s) include Schlenger, Christopher; and Ungi, Tamas.
The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Determining location and orientation of a hand-held surgical tool is provided. One embodiment captures image data that includes images of a first detectable target on the hand-held surgical tool and a second detectable target on a patient. Location and orientation of the first detectable target in a 3D space is determined based on the image data. Current location and orientation of the hand-held surgical tool in the 3D space determined based on the determined location and orientation of the first detectable target and based on retrieved model data representing the hand-held surgical tool. Location of the second detectable target in the 3D space is determined based on the image data. Then, a location of the patient's tissue in the 3D space relative to the location and orientation of the hand-held surgical tool is determined based on the determined location of the patient's second detectable target."
The patent application was internationally filed on Oct. 14, 2022, under International application No.PCT/US2022/046753.
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