US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Nov. 18 for "Extended intelligence for pulmonary procedures" (American, Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,996, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Extended intelligence for pulmonary procedures" was invented by Peter N. Braido (Linwood, Minn.), Randal C. Schulhauser (Phoenix), Paul S. Addison (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Max L. Balter (Boston), Joseph D. Brannan (Lyons, Colo.), Zhongping Yang (Woodbury, Minn.), Shantanu Sarkar (Roseville, Minn.) and Nicolas Coulombe (Anjou, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing intelligent assistance ("IA") or extended intelligence ("EI") ecosystem for pulmonary procedures. In various embodiments, a computing system mig...