ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,797, issued on May 13, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for providing an augmented display" was invented by Stephanie Elizabeth Wiegel (Lafayette, Colo.), Aditya R. Dalvi (Broomfield, Colo.) and Andrew J. Koert (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for providing an augmented display are provided. The system may comprise a display configured to display an image over an environment. At least one image may be received from an imaging device. The at least one image may be registered to a patient and displayed in the display. The display may...