US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on June 24 for "AI-based endoscopic tissue acquisition planning" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,684, issued on June 24, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"AI-based endoscopic tissue acquisition planning" was invented by Hiroyuki Mino (Westborough, Mass.), Anthony R. Pirozzi (Raleigh, N.C.), Gloria Yee (Wellesley, Mass.), Kenji Murakami (Hino, Japan), Seiichiro Sakaguchi (Akishima, Japan) and Makoto Ishikake (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for planning an endoscopic tissue acquisition procedure for acquiring tissue from an anatomical target are disclosed. An endoscopic system comprises a steerable elongate instrument and a processor. The steerable elongate instrument can be posi...