US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on Nov. 11 for "Method and system for positioning an imaging system" (Massachusetts, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,316, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"Method and system for positioning an imaging system" was invented by Rasika A. Parkar (Wayland, Mass.), Xavier Tomas Fernandez (Medford, Mass.), Xiaodong Tao (Westwood, Mass.), Nikita Pandey (Broomfield, Colo.), Patrick A. Helm (Canton, Mass.) and Dany Junio (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are disclosed for analyzing image data of a subject and/or operating and moving an imaging system to obtain image data. The image data can be collected with an imaging system in a selected manner and/or motion. An automatic sy...