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Finding tight smallest ellipsoid that circumscribes over intersection of two ellipsoids that do not have common center

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Finding tight ellipsoid that circumscribes ellipsoid over intersection of two ellipsoids that do not have common center

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Does this already exist in literature? The closest Ive been able to find is circumscribe intersection of two ellipsoids with a common center by W. Kahan .(http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Ellipint.pdf).

I am looking for a method to circumscribe an ellipsoid over the intersection of two ellipsoids. The ellipsoid do not have a common center.
PS: We can assume that the ellipsoids always intersect and they are full dimensional ellipsoids (not enclosed in a subspace). However, the ellipsoids can be infinite cylinders (if the matrix W for (x-c)^TW(x-c) is not invertible).

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