US Patent Issued to Covidien on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for C-arm fluoroscope camera pose refinement with secondary movement compensation" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,035, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for C-arm fluoroscope camera pose refinement with secondary movement compensation" was invented by Guy Alexandroni (Yehud-Monosson, Israel) and Ariel Birenbaum (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Imaging systems and methods compensate for wigwag movement of a C-arm fluoroscope to refine camera pose estimates. The methods involve computing a primary movement axis from samples of markers in fluoroscopic images of a fluoroscopic sweep of a structure of markers and processing the primary movement axis to obtain a secondary movement ax...