US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on March 17 for "Rotating 3D scanner to enable prone contactless registration" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,737, issued on March 17, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Rotating 3D scanner to enable prone contactless registration" was invented by Samantha Joanne Preston (Denver), Yvan R. Paitel (Louisville, Colo.), Ryan D. Datteri (Denver), Andrew James Summers (Denver), Rhythm Agarwal (Boulder, Colo.), Roger Carter (Boulder, Colo.), Hannah Walsh (Denver), Abhinaya Ramadugu (Boulder, Colo.), Maitreyee Ramesh Rao (Boulder, Colo.) and Wei-Ting Chien (Louisville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods used to perform touchless 3D scanning of a patient's face in the prone position are disclosed. I...