US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for localization based on machine learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,444, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for localization based on machine learning" was invented by David B. Camarillo (Aptos, Calif.), David Eng (Saratoga, Calif.) and Jake Sganga (Laguna Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for localizing and/or navigating a medical instrument within a luminal network. A medical system can include an elongate body configured to be inserted into the luminal network, as well as an imaging device positioned on a distal portion of the elongate...