ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,167, issued on March 18, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Gesture based selection of portion of catheter" was invented by Yan Korgozki (Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel), Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel) and Ilan Goldenberg (Netanya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a medical system includes a catheter configured to be inserted into a body part of a living subject, a display configured to provide a view of at least part of a hand of a user, and a processor configured to track a position of the catheter in the body part, render to the display a three-dimensional view of an interior of an a...