US Patent Issued on Jan. 27 for "Systems, methods, and devices for registering and tracking organs during interventional procedures" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,193, issued on Jan. 27.

"Systems, methods, and devices for registering and tracking organs during interventional procedures" was invented by Neil Glossop (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices are provided for assisting or performing guided interventional procedures using. The system uses pre-procedure scans of a patient's anatomy to identify targets and critical structures. A measurement device containing position indicating elements or fiducials is placed in a pre-existing or physician created conduit or lumen whose geometry is known from a scan. During a procedure, the pre-procedure scans may be regi...