US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Dec. 30 for "Path preparation system for preparing a path for a device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,080, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Path preparation system for preparing a path for a device" was invented by Alois Regensburger (Poxdorf, Germany), Tobias Lenich (Nuremberg, Germany) and Rebecca Fahrig (Mohrendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A path preparation system for preparing a path for a device. The path preparation system includes an ultrasound transmitter and a tracking system. The tracking system is configured to determine a current position of the device on the path. The ultrasound transmitter is configured to focus an ultrasound wave onto a focus position tha...