US Patent Issued to Covidien on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for radiographic evaluation of a nodule for malignant sensitivity" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,125, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for radiographic evaluation of a nodule for malignant sensitivity" was invented by Scott E. M. Frushour (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of guiding a clinician in a medical procedure for a nodule involve receiving three-dimensional (3D) image data, generating a volumetric vector map based on the 3D image data, and displaying the volumetric vector map in a way, e.g., via a heat map, that assists a clinician in performing a medical procedure. The systems and methods involve identifying volumetric parameters of ...