ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,799, issued on Aug. 11.
"Methods and systems for automated steering of guidewires" was invented by Yoonho Kim (Boston) and Jaehun Choe (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automated steering of magnetically steerable intravascular guidewires includes accessing, by a magnetic steering control component, volumetric imaging associated with a patient. The magnetic steering control component generates, prior to an operation on the patient, a three-dimensional vessel map based upon the accessed volumetric imaging. The magnetic steering control component generates, prior to the operation, a path through a vasculatur...