ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,843, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"System and method of patient registration" was invented by Arifmohamd Hamaju Mujawar (Sangli, India), Manisha Chalamalasetti (Pragathi Nagar, India), Jyothi Bonthu (Hyderabad, India), Praveena Narayanabhatla (Hyderabad, India) and Pratima Mehta (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a system to register a subject, e.g., physical, space to an image space. The registration may be performed automatically by a registration system with a registration device. The registration device may acquire an image of a subject space."

The ...