US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on June 3 for "Systems, method and devices for assisting or performing guiding interventional procedures using inertial measurement units and magnetometer sensors" (Maryland, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,646, issued on June 3, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Systems, method and devices for assisting or performing guiding interventional procedures using inertial measurement units and magnetometer sensors" was invented by Sheng Xu (Rockville, Md.), Bradford J. Wood (Bethesda, Md.) and Tsz Ho Tse (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instrument tracker includes a case having an interior and exterior with a plurality of instrument seats, an inertial measurement unit (IMU), and a controller. The IMU and controller are arrange...