US Patent Issued to Covidien on June 3 for "Integration of multiple data sources for localization and navigation" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,151, issued on June 3, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Integration of multiple data sources for localization and navigation" was invented by William S Krimsky (Forest Hill, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, devices, and methods for navigating a tool inside a luminal network. An exemplary method includes receiving image data of a patient's chest, identifying the patient's lungs, determining locations of a luminal network in the patient's lungs, identifying a target location in the patient's lungs, generating a pathway to the target location, generating a three-dimensional (3D) model of the patie...