US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on May 13 for "Systems and methods for intraoperative re-registration" (Colorado, Tennessee, Mississippi Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,678, issued on May 13, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for intraoperative re-registration" was invented by Jerald L. Redmond (Germantown, Tenn.), Stanley T. Palmatier (Olive Branch, Miss.), Victor D. Snyder (Erie, Colo.), Nikita Pandey (Broomfield, Colo.) and Anisha A. Parkar (Thornton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A re-registration method includes receiving a first image depicting a reference frame attached to a patient and oriented in a first pose relative to the patient, the first image obtained by an imaging device mounted to a movable support that has been locked in a s...