US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on July 14 for "Imaging system" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,471, issued on July 14, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"Imaging system" was invented by Xavier Tomas Fernandez (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Andre D. A. Souza (Boylston, Mass.), Robert Allen Simpson (Shirley, Mass.), Kyo C. Jin (Durham, N.H.), Hong Li (Boxborough, Mass.), Xiaodong Tao (Westwood, Mass.), Patrick A. Helm (Milton, Mass.) and Michael P. Marrama (Ayer, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system and method for operating an imaging system. The imaging system may move or be moved to acquire image data of a subject at different positions relative to the subject. The image data may, the...