ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,349, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Elucent Medical Inc. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
"Systems and methods for wireless localization" was invented by Charles Foard Naumann (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Bryan Dean (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Jeff Kotula (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Jason Hiltner (Eden Prairie, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless localization system including an exciter coil, a sensor coil, a surgical tool including a head defining a longitudinal axis, and a first wireless tag coupled to the head at a first position along the longitudinal axis. The first wireless tag is configured to generate a first signal in response to a...