ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,719, issued on May 13, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Endoscope navigation system with updating anatomy model" was invented by Derek Scot Tata (Loveland, Colo.), Peter Douglas Colin Inglis (Boulder, Colo.) and Alexandra R. Hause (Denver).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscope navigation system is provided that updates an anatomy model based on a live camera signal. As the endoscope advances within the patient, a camera signal, and corresponding position signal, of the endoscope, is provided and used to update the anatomy model based on identified divergences between the camera signal at a particular position and...