ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,857, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Excera Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Multiscale ultrasound tracking and display" was invented by Michael K. Southworth (St. Louis), Christopher Michael Andrews (Chesterfield, Mo.), Ignacio Soriano (Madrid), Alexander Bair Henry (St. Louis), Jonathan R. Silva (St. Louis) and Jennifer N. Avari Silva (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a system receives data from a first electromagnetic sensor coupled to a head-mounted display (HMD) and detecting an electromagnetic field generated by an electromagnetic reference source coupled to an ultrasound probe. The system receives data from a ...