US Patent Issued to NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY on May 12 for "Tag-guided image positioning method and system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,406, issued on May 12, was assigned to NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Tag-guided image positioning method and system" was invented by Wei-Lun Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yung-Shin Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Lin Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hui-Yu Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tag-guided image positioning method includes: defining a three-dimensional space coordinate system based on tag spatial position information obtained by identifying reference image(s) of a patient's body part disposed with reference tag(s), and position/direction data related to a medical device reference point (MDC)/directi...