US Patent Issued to Broncus Medical on Jan. 27 for "Surgical assistant system based on image data of the operative field" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,192, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Broncus Medical Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Surgical assistant system based on image data of the operative field" was invented by Thomas M. Keast (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for assisting a physician compute the 3D location of the tip of a surgical device inserted into a patient is described. A trained model computes the 3D location of the hidden portion of the surgical device based on live image data of the operative field. A display shows the tip of the surgical device and a 3D model of the body organ in a fused arrangement."

The patent was filed on Oc...