US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Feb. 17 for "Skull-contoured MRI localizer" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,129, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Skull-contoured MRI localizer" was invented by Kendall H. Lee (Rochester, Minn.), Stephen J. Goerss (Rochester, Minn.), Aaron E. Rusheen (Rochester, Minn.), Benjamin T. Gifford (Rochester, Minn.) and Andrew J. Fagan (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes a shell portion configured to be worn over a head of a subject. The shell portion defines a plurality of apertures. The apparatus also includes a plurality of spherical fiducial structures disposed on the shell portion. Each of the fi...