US Patent Issued to Covidien on March 25 for "Cone beam computed tomography integration for creating a navigation pathway to a target in the lung and method of navigating to the target" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,082, issued on March 25, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Cone beam computed tomography integration for creating a navigation pathway to a target in the lung and method of navigating to the target" was invented by Oren P. Weingarten (Hod-Hasharon, Israel), Ariel Birenbaum (Raanana, Israel) and Evgeni Kopel (Barkan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a surgical procedure includes obtaining images of a patient's anatomy using a cone beam computed tomography machine while the patient is sedated, identifying an area of interest in the images obtained by the cone beam computed tomography machine,...