ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,820, issued on June 9, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"System, method and apparatus for magnetic tracking of ultrasound probe and generation of 3D visualization thereof" was invented by Anthony K. Misener (Bountiful, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic-based tracking system for tracking an ultrasound probe. The tracking system can create a three-dimensional visualization. The tracking system can include a reference device including a reference magnet and an ultrasound probe including an ultrasound acoustic transducer or acoustic array that acquires ultrasound images. The reference device can incl...