ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,282, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing UnLtd. Co. (Dublin).

"Percutaneous medical device navigation system" was invented by Manoj Kumar Singh (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device navigation system includes a medical device assembly and a navigation device. The medical device assembly includes an adhesive patch configured to adhere to an outer surface of a patient and a tracking assembly coupled to the adhesive patch. The tracking assembly includes one or more reference markers. The navigation device is configured to receive image data representing one or more images from...