US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers, King's College London on July 8 for "Device and method for 3D real-time medical instrument tracking" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,986, issued on July 8, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany) and King's College London (London).

"Device and method for 3D real-time medical instrument tracking" was invented by Grzegorz Kowalik (London), Radhouene Neji (London), Reza Razavi (Northwood, Great Britain), Kuberan Pushparajah (London) and Sebastien Roujol (Kingston upon Thames, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a magnetic resonance tomography unit for tracking a medical instrument are disclosed. In the method, a tracking volume is defined enclosing a predefined trajectory of the medical instrument. Two-dimensional (2D) projec...