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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2004
Applicants:
Stefan Vilsmeier, Kufstein, AT;
Alexander Pfäffle, Erding, DE;
Robert Schmidt, München, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Brainlab AG, Feldkirchen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A device for positioning at least one ultrasound probe of an ultrasound apparatus can include a recording device for recording an object and an evaluating unit that evaluates data corresponding to the object obtained from the recording device. A computational unit can generate positional data for the at least one ultrasound probe of the ultrasound apparatus. The device can be used for setting at least one parameter of the ultrasound apparatus based on data obtained by the recording device.