ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,680, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Humatics Corp. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Radio-frequency systems and methods for co-localization of medical devices and patients" was invented by David A. Mindell (Cambridge, Mass.), James Campbell Kinsey (Brookline, Mass.), Gregory L. Charvat (Guilford, Conn.), Matthew Carey (Watertown, Mass.), Devon Reed Clark (Boston), Eben Christopher Rauhut (Watertown, Mass.) and Jyotsna Marie Winsor (Somerville, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for facilitating interactions between a medical device (e.g., an imaging device, a surgical tool, a robotic arm, etc.) and a patient using radio f...