US Patent Issued to Covidien on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for planning a surgical procedure and evaluating the performance of a surgical procedure" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,443, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for planning a surgical procedure and evaluating the performance of a surgical procedure" was invented by Scott E. M. Frushour (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system facilitating planning of a surgical procedure includes one or more storage devices, one or more input devices, a processor, and a memory. The storage device(s) stores, for previous surgical procedures, surgical instrument information, procedure information, and patient information. The input device(s) is configured to receive procedure information and patient infor...