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Veran Medical Technologies Inc. of Nashville was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,920,909, entitled “Apparatus and method for automatic image guided accuracy verification” and invented by Troy L. Holsing, Jerome R. Edwards, Christopher B. Lee and Evan Austill Jr. of Nashville, and Torsten M. Lyon of Golden, Colo.
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