US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Sept. 2 for "Extended-reality visualization of endovascular navigation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,955, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Extended-reality visualization of endovascular navigation" was invented by Enio T. Perez Filho (Minneapolis), Braden Eliason (Minneapolis), Reza Talaie (Plymouth, Minn.), Aaron Koenigsberg (Farmington, Minn.) and Jafar Golzarian (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for extended-reality (XR) visualization of a flexible medical tool. In one example, sensor(s), disposed near a distal portion of a flexible shaft of a medical tool configured for insertion into a patient, sense values indicative of a pose of th...