Patent 9510771 was granted and assigned to NuVasive on December, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present application includes a position tracking system for tracking the location of surgical objects within the surgical field, a neuromonitoring system for detecting the existence of (and optionally the distance and/or direction to) neural structures during a surgical procedure, and a processing system communicatively linked to both the position tracking system and the neuromonitoring system.