US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation, The Johns Hopkins University on Aug. 12 for "System and method for artifact reduction in an image" (Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,395, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.) and The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"System and method for artifact reduction in an image" was invented by Patrick A. Helm (Canton, Mass.), Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen (Baltimore), Ali Uneri (Columbia, Md.), Wojciech Zbijewski (Baltimore), Xiaoxuan Zhang (Baltimore) and Joseph W. Stayman IV (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Selected artifacts, which may be based on distortions or selected attenuation features, may be reduced or removed from a reconstructed image. Various artifacts may occur due to the presence of a metal object in a field...