ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,991, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Magnisity Ltd. (Hod-HaSharon, Israel).
"Dynamic deformation tracking for navigational bronchoscopy" was invented by Ron Barak (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Benjamin Greenburg (Hod-HaSharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for tracking movement of a catheter within airways of a lung. A deformable model of the lung represents airways of the lung as airway segments joined at bifurcations. Deformation of the lung model uses modification of the angles and/or positions of the airway segments with respect to each other. An initial model may be generated, for example, based on segme...