US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on Dec. 9 for "Methods and systems for guiding user to perform medical imaging" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,951, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"Methods and systems for guiding user to perform medical imaging" was invented by Henry Chosta (Northbridge, Mass.), Rasika A. Parkar (Wayland, Mass.), Kyo C. Jin (Durham, N.H.), Robert A. Simpson (Shirley, Mass.), Krisha D. Nazareth (Hudson, Mass.), Stephanie Arce (Needham, Mass.) and Xavier Tomas Fernandez (Jamaica Plain, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system for generating an x-ray image of a subject. The imaging system including an imaging gantry having an x-ray emitter for emitting x-rays through the subject and an x-ray detector...