US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on Feb. 24 for "Energizable instrument assembly" (Colorado, Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,141, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"Energizable instrument assembly" was invented by Brad Jacobsen (Erie, Colo.), Amy Bradley (Westford, Mass.), Xiaoming Cheng (Keller, Texas), Yeung Chow (Longmont, Colo.), Anjali Dhiman (Commerce City, Colo.), Yahia Laouar (Superior, Colo.), Prakash Manley (Arvada, Colo.), Martin Masson (Keller, Texas), Molly Ann Megna (Denver), Katherine M. Puckett (Denver), Wade Schutte (Denver), Mohammad Miri (Longmont, Colo.) and Juan P. Angulo (Louisville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for altering an energizable instrument for performing a proc...