US Patent Issued to Olympus on Nov. 25 for "Image guidance during cannulation" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,433, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Olympus Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image guidance during cannulation" was invented by Hiroyuki Mino (Westborough, Mass.), Hirokazu Horio (Allentown, Pa.), Brandon Ranalli (Quincy, Mass.), Mark Lavender (Plymouth, Minn.), Gloria Yee (Westborough, Mass.), Anthony R. Pirozzi (Raleigh, N.C.), Quinn C. Cartall (Atlanta), Atanaska Gospodinova (Hamburg, Germany) and Katharina Dissmann (Aumuhle, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for integrating images from various sources and using the same to guide endoscopic procedures are disclosed. An endoscopic system comprises an endoscope...