ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,220, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Active distal tip drive" was invented by John W. Komp (Dillon, Colo.) and Scott E. M. Frushour (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of correcting alignment of catheter relative to a target including receiving signals from an inertial measurement unit located at a distal end of a catheter, determining movement of the distal end of the catheter caused by physiological forces, receiving images depicting the distal end of the catheter and the target, identifying the distal end of the catheter and the target in the images, determining an...