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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2007
Applicants:
Stefan Vilsmeier, München, DE;
Thomas Bauch, Bergkirchen, DE;
Uli Mezger, München, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Brainlab AG, Feldkirchen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 90/00 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 90/39 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2068 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3954 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3983 (2016.02);
Abstract
A reference structure for use with a medical navigation system, includes an imaging structure, and a plurality of artificial markers arranged at predetermined locations on said imaging structure. The artificial markers are detectable by the medical navigation system, wherein the artificial markers have a known relationship to the imaging structure.