US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on Nov. 3 for "Oral patient tracking device and method of using the same" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,682, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"Oral patient tracking device and method of using the same" was invented by Stefan Wolfsberger (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient tracking device for insertion into an oral cavity includes a sensor housing comprising a first surface shaped to correspond to a pallet within the oral cavity. At least a portion of the first surface affixes the sensor housing to the oral cavity. An electromagnetic sensor is coupled to the sensor housing."

The patent was filed on June 21, 2024, under Application No. 18/750,782.

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