US Patent Issued to Covidien on Jan. 20 for "Zoom detection and fluoroscope movement detection for target overlay" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,540, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Zoom detection and fluoroscope movement detection for target overlay" was invented by Ariel Birenbaum (Raanana, Israel), Oren P. Weingarten (Hod-Hasharon, Israel), Irina Shevlev (Ashdod, Israel) and Guy Alexandroni (Yehud-Monosson, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for visualizing navigation of a medical device with respect to a target using a live fluoroscopic view. The methods include determining a level of zoom of a fluoroscope when acquiring a reference frame. The methods further include determining whether the live fluoroscopic image...