US Patent Issued to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften on Feb. 24 for "Method for controlling a movement of a medical device in a magnetic field" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,180, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (Munich).

"Method for controlling a movement of a medical device in a magnetic field" was invented by Metin Sitti (Stuttgart, Germany) and Martin Phelan (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a movement of a medical device in a magnetic field, the medical device having a set of coils includes determining a torque that needs to be applied onto the medical device such that the medical device carries out the movement, determining a minimum current that needs to be supplied to each coil of the set of ...