US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on March 17 for "Systems and methods for improved electromagnetic tracking" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,890, issued on March 17, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for improved electromagnetic tracking" was invented by Bradley W. Jacobsen (Erie, Colo.) and Andrew J. Wald (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tracking a pose of a portion of an anatomical structure using an inverted-direction electromagnetic navigation system may comprise generating a signal comprising a plurality of frequencies. The signal comprising the plurality of frequencies may be received at a transmitter coil array. The transmitter coil array comprises a plurality of transmitting micro coils. Each of the pluralit...