US Patent Issued to Covidien on Dec. 9 for "System and methods for suturing guidance" (Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,028, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"System and methods for suturing guidance" was invented by Dwight Meglan (Westwood, Mass.), Arvind K. Ramadorai (Lexington, Mass.), Meir Rosenberg (Newton, Mass.), Joshua R. Snow (Clinton, Conn.) and William J. Peine (Ashland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue suturing guidance system includes an image capturing device, a display, and a processor in communication with the image capturing device and the display. The image capturing device is configured to capture a suture site. The display is configured to display an image of the suture site. The process...