ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,890, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"3D pathfinder visualization" was invented by Moran Levi (Tivon, Israel), Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel), Alon Boumendil (Givat Nili, Israel), Yair Palti (Herzelia, Israel) and Remi Bettan (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a medical instrument, a position tracking system to track coordinates of the instrument within a passage in a body, a processor to register the system and a 3D CT image of at least a part of the body, find a path of the instrument through the passage, compute segments of the p...