US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for improved electromagnetic tracking" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,955, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for improved electromagnetic tracking" was invented by Bradley W. Jacobsen (Erie, Colo.) and Andrew J. Wald (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tracking a pose of a portion of an anatomical structure using an electromagnetic navigation system may comprise generating a signal. The generated signal is configured to cause bi-directional micro coils of a bi-directional coil array to generate an electromagnetic field at each bi-directional micro coil in response to receiving the generated signal. Each of the bi-directional micr...