US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on July 8 for "Touchless registration using a reference frame adapter" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,719, issued on July 8, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"Touchless registration using a reference frame adapter" was invented by Morgan Suzanne Arvisais (Longmont, Colo.) and Samantha Joanne Preston (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for touchless registration using a reference frame adapter is provided. A first image of a region of a patient and a second image of the region of the patient and a reference frame adapter may be received. The reference frame adapter may be configured to selectively attach to a patient reference frame positioned near the region of the patient. The secon...