US Patent Issued to Covidien on Aug. 19 for "Systems and methods for pose estimation of a fluoroscopic imaging device and for three-dimensional imaging of body structures" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,175, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for pose estimation of a fluoroscopic imaging device and for three-dimensional imaging of body structures" was invented by Oren P. Weingarten (Hod-Hasharon, Israel), Guy Alexandroni (Yehud-Monosson, Israel) and Evgeni Kopel (Barkan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Imaging systems and methods estimate poses of a fluoroscopic imaging device, which may be used to reconstruct 3D volumetric data of a target area, based on a sequence of fluoroscopic images of a medical device or points, e.g., radiopaque markers, on the medical device captured...