US Patent Issued to Covidien on March 25 for "Systems and methods for guiding surgical procedures" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,890, issued on March 25, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for guiding surgical procedures" was invented by Dwight Meglan (Westwood, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for guiding a surgical procedure include accessing information relating to a surgical procedure, accessing at least one image of a surgical site captured by an endoscope during the surgical procedure, identifying a tool captured in the at least one image by a machine learning system, determining whether the tool should be changed based on comparing the information relating to the surgical procedure and the tool identified b...