US Patent Issued to Coviden on June 10 for "Systems and methods for providing surgical guidance" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,635, issued on June 10, was assigned to Coviden LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for providing surgical guidance" was invented by Evgeni Kopel (Barkan, Israel), Oren P. Weingarten (Hod-Hasharon, Israel) and Ariel Birenbaum (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surgical guidance systems and methods visually mark a structure of interest (SOI) of an organ on intraoperative images captured by a locatable imaging device. A location of the SOI relative to a body structure (e.g., a passageway system) associated with the organ is determined in a preoperative image that is captured by a medical diagnostic imaging (MDI) sy...