ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,952, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Intelligent display" was invented by Israel Kehat (Ramat Ha Sharon, Israel), Eyal Klein (Herzliya, Israel), Benjamin Greenburg (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Dorian Averbuch (Ramat HaSharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image display apparatus for displaying medical images of a lung on a screen includes a network interface receiving positional information of a navigation instrument from a position sensor of the navigation instrument, a video stream from an optical sensor of the navigation instrument, and medical images from an imaging device, a me...