US Patent Issued to The Penn State Research Foundation on March 11 for "Multi-destination procedure planning and guidance for endoscopic surgery" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,824, issued on March 11, was assigned to The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Pa.).

"Multi-destination procedure planning and guidance for endoscopic surgery" was invented by William E. Higgins (State College, Pa.) and Trevor Kuhlengel (University Park, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for planning a tour visiting a set of target diagnostic sites via endoscopy passing through a hollow organ system includes computing a 3D virtual space of the hollow organ system based on the 3D imaging scan depicting the diagnostic sites and hollow organ system, computing a series of preliminary endoscopic routes leading to...