US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research, The Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology on Nov. 18 for "Method and system for guiding a positioning instrument" (Georgia, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,991, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta) and The Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, N.J.).

"Method and system for guiding a positioning instrument" was invented by Waiman Meinhold (Atlanta), Mehmet Kurt (Hoboken, N.J.), Efe Ozkaya (Hoboken, N.J.) and Jun Ueda (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary robotic system and control method is disclosed that employs magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI) guided visual-servo positioning of a medical robot system. In an example, an MR Elastography (MRE) actuator system is disclosed that employs the exemplary MRI-guided visual servoi...