US Patent Issued to Covidien KP on Oct. 14 for "Multi-rigid registration of magnetic navigation to a computed tomography volume" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,283, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Covidien KP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Multi-rigid registration of magnetic navigation to a computed tomography volume" was invented by Oren P. Weingarten (Hod-Hasharon, Israel) and Alexander Nepomniashchy (Herzlia, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and computer-readable media for registering an electromagnetic registration of a luminal network to a 3D model of the luminal network include accessing a 3D model of a luminal network based on computed tomographic (CT) images of the luminal network, selecting a plurality of reference points within the 3D model of the luminal...