US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Sept. 2 for "Apparatus and method for guiding an instrument by a luminous pointer" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,956, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for guiding an instrument by a luminous pointer" was invented by Arne Hengerer (Mohrendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instrument, a magnetic resonance imaging scanner and a method for operating the magnetic resonance imaging scanner with the instrument in which the instrument is aligned with a patient. The medical instrument comprises a first projector for projecting a luminous pointer in a predetermined alignment relative to the medical instrument. The magnetic resonance imaging scanner comprises a positioning ...