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Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026

Filed:

Jun. 14, 2024
Applicant:

Globus Medical, Inc., Audubon, PA (US);

Inventors:

Tom Calloway, Pelham, NH (US);

Neil R. Crawford, Chandler, AZ (US);

Assignee:

Globus Medical Inc., Audubon, PA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 34/00 (2016.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/20 (2016.02); A61B 34/25 (2016.02); A61B 34/30 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2055 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3937 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3983 (2016.02);
Abstract

A camera tracking system for computer assisted navigation during surgery. Operations identify stray markers in a frame of tracking data from tracking cameras, and identify stray markers of a reference array. Stray markers of the reference array are designated assigned status and, otherwise, designated unknown status. The operations designate other of the assigned status stray markers and any of the unknown status stray markers along a same epipolar line of the tracking cameras as one of the assigned status stray markers as being epipolar ambiguous status. For each one of the epipolar ambiguous status stray markers, the operations estimate 3D locations where phantom markers can appear in the frame based on epipolar ambiguity of the tracking cameras when determining location of the one of the epipolar ambiguous status stray markers. The operations designate the unknown status stray markers within a threshold distance of the estimated 3D locations of phantom markers as being phantom status.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Calloway, Tom. (2026). Camera tracking system identifying phantom markers during computer assisted surgery navigation (U.S. Patent No. 12551295). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12551295

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