US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on Aug. 18 for "Navigation and local thermometry" (Colorado, Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,267, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"Navigation and local thermometry" was invented by Brad Jacobsen (Erie, Colo.), Andrew Bzostek (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel Dunford (Broomfield, Colo.), Benjamin D. Ewing (Arvada, Colo.), Amir Ghanei (Arvada, Colo.), Bryan Wilson (Bradenton, Fla.) and Janine Benavente (Louisville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a thermal sensor with an instrument placed in a volume. The thermal sensor may be useful in determining a temperature at a surface of the instrument and a distance away from the instrument. A therapy may be performed ba...