US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on March 25 for "Method to superimpose rendering over spine hardware implants on images produced by Cbct scanner system" (Massachusetts, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,092, issued on March 25, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"Method to superimpose rendering over spine hardware implants on images produced by Cbct scanner system" was invented by Rasika A. Parkar (Wayland, Mass.), Michael P. Marrama (Ayer, Mass.), Rejeesh Radhakrishnan (Leominster, Mass.) and Edward B. Lipes (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for identifying an implant in an x-ray image of an anatomy shown on a display screen. The method includes: displaying the image including an artifact of the implant; prompting a user to enter parameters of the implant; displaying...