US Patent Issued to Covidien on March 25 for "System for tracking and imaging a treatment probe" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,105, issued on March 25, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"System for tracking and imaging a treatment probe" was invented by Morgan L. Hill (Conifer, Colo.), Eric W. Larson (Lakewood, Colo.), Casey M. Ladtkow (Erie, Colo.), Nikhil P. Mankar (Pune, India), Arlen J. Reschke (Longmont, Colo.), Jeetendra Bharadwaj (Erie, Colo.), Robert J. Behnke II (Erie, Colo.) and William J. Dickhans (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a treatment probe, a first tracking sensor configured to track a location of the treatment probe, an ultrasound imager, a second tracking sensor configured to track a locati...