US Patent Issued to Covidien on Dec. 16 for "System and methods for determining proximity relative to an anatomical structure" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,125, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"System and methods for determining proximity relative to an anatomical structure" was invented by Amanda H. Lennartz (Erie, Colo.), Daniel A. Joseph (Golden, Colo.), Cornelia F. Twomey (Longmont, Colo.), Erin E. Wehrly (Longmont, Colo.), Pierre Gherardi (Longmont, Colo.), Tracy J. Pheneger (Longmont, Colo.), David M. Garrison (Longmont, Colo.), Tyler J. Bagrosky (Arvada, Colo.), Robert H. Wham (Boulder, Colo.) and Jing Zhao (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a surgical instrument configured to perform a laparoscopic surgical operat...