US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on March 11 for "Systems and methods for medical imagery enhancement by use of image guidance system" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,084, issued on March 11, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for medical imagery enhancement by use of image guidance system" was invented by Robert Pahl (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods used to register medical image data with anatomical positions are disclosed. The image data is captured by an imaging system over a period of time. The positions are determined by a tracking system over the period of time. The positions are averaged to determine an average position of the anatomy, which is then used for registration of the image data with t...