ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,125, issued on April 7, was assigned to Acclarent Inc. (Irvine, Calif.) and Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (CA Yokneam, Israel).

"Visualization system and method for ENT procedures" was invented by Jetmir Palushi (Irvine, Calif.), Itamar Bustan (Zichron Ya'acov, Israel), Noam Racheli (Hadera, Israel), Itzhak Fang (Irvine, Calif.), Athanasios Papadakis (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visualization system may be implemented with an image guided surgery navigation system for use during ENT procedures. Correlated datasets such as surgical paths and pre-operative image slices may be...