US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on July 28 for "Method and system for tracking and visualizing medical devices" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,925, issued on July 28, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Method and system for tracking and visualizing medical devices" was invented by Anthony Wendling (Watertown, Minn.) and Fermin Armando Lupotti (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electroanatomical mapping system tracks and visualizes an item of interest, such as a medical device or anatomical structure, as the item moves within a non-ionizing localization field. The system localizes the item within the localization field and determines the initial position of the item with respect to an imaging device (e.g., an int...