Patents Assigned to Novaplus Systems, Incorporated
  • Patent number: 7424139
    Abstract: The virtual surgery systems, methods, and apparatuses that provide for the prediction, evaluation, and validation of various cosmetic and reconstructive surgical procedures. The virtual surgery systems, methods, and apparatuses utilize a scanner, measurement software, queries to a postoperative patient scan catalog, conversion of a preoperative image to a Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) image, grafting and scaling of chosen postoperative surgery candidates, conversion from the converted VRML image to a scanner readable format, and measuring the forecasted VRML image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: Novaplus Systems, Incorporated
    Inventors: David B. Stefan, David A. Gilbert