US Patent Issued to EndoChoice on July 8 for "Device and method for tracking the position of an endoscope within a patient's body" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,985, issued on July 8, was assigned to EndoChoice Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Device and method for tracking the position of an endoscope within a patient's body" was invented by Achia Kronman (Pardes Hana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of tracking the position of an endoscope within a patient's body during an endoscopic procedure is disclosed. The devices and methods include determining a position of the endoscope within the patient in the endoscope's coordinate system, capturing in an image fiducial markers attached to the endoscope by an external optical tracker, transforming the captured fiducial markers f...