US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on Sept. 1 for "Systems and methods for imaging wide film radiographs" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,584, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for imaging wide film radiographs" was invented by Michael D. Ketcha (Brookline, Mass.), Patrick A. Helm (Canton, Mass.) and Kyo C. Jin (Durham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an image apparatus and the imaging apparatus. The method operable to acquire image data of an object with a detector in a selected orientation. The method further operable to acquire image data at an effective detector larger than a physical detector. The image apparatus configured carry out the method."

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