US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on Oct. 21 for "System and method for navigating and illustrating a procedure" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,972, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"System and method for navigating and illustrating a procedure" was invented by Matthew W. Koenig (Denver) and Marco Capote (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system to assist in a procedure. During the procedure an object may be moved relative to a subject, such as being positioned and/or placed within a subject. The system and related method may be used to assist in displaying and/or determining a pose of the object relative to a subject, such as rigid portions of a subject."

The patent was filed on Feb. 1, 2024, under ...