US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ on Feb. 10 for "Automatic tracking of target treatment sites within patient anatomy" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,181, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Automatic tracking of target treatment sites within patient anatomy" was invented by Kevin Andrew Hufford (Cary, N.C.) and Mohan Nathan (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During a medical procedure, a system and method facilitate identification and treatment of sites within patient anatomy. A digital image of a region of patient anatomy is captured and displayed on a digital display. Target treatment sites are tagged with respect to the image, and overlays identifying the tagged target treatment sites are displayed. As tagged sites are t...