ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,530, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).
"Touch and move anatomy localization" was invented by Elizabeth Rose Rooney (Waltham, Mass.), Erica C. Freund (Cambridge, Mass.), Xavier Tomas Fernandez (Medford, Mass.), Seunghoon Nam (Bedford, Mass.) and Robert Allen Simpson (Shirley, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may perform a preview scan process associated with scanning a patient anatomy. Performing the preview scan process may include capturing one or more localization images comprising a portion of the patient anatomy. The system may capture one or more multidimensional images ...