US Patent Issued to EmpNia on Jan. 28 for "Method and apparatus for real time respiratory gating signal generation and detection of body deformation using embedded fiber bragg gratings" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,891, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to EmpNia Inc. (Edina, Minn.).

"Method and apparatus for real time respiratory gating signal generation and detection of body deformation using embedded fiber bragg gratings" was invented by Manojeet Bhattacharya (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of compensating for body deformation during image acquisition or external beam treatment includes acquiring image data of a body and peak wavelength data from a plurality of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) disposed on the body aligned along a predetermined coordinate system on the body, such as a cartesian coordinate system. The...