US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on Nov. 3 for "Method and apparatus for moving a reference device" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,442, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"Method and apparatus for moving a reference device" was invented by Robert J. Reddy (Westminster, Colo.) and Robert S. Teichman (Lafayette, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and system for navigating an instrument relative to a subject. A reference device can be associated with the subject. The reference device can be moved while maintaining or allowing registration with an image space."

The patent was filed on March 26, 2024, under Application No. 18/617,487.

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