US Patent Issued to Auris Health on Nov. 18 for "Vision-based 6DOF camera pose estimation in bronchoscopy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,591, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Vision-based 6DOF camera pose estimation in bronchoscopy" was invented by Mali Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Menglong Ye (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems provide improved navigation through tubular networks such as lung airways by providing improved estimation of location and orientation information of a medical instrument (e.g., an endoscope) within the tubular network. Various input data such as image data and CT data, are used to model the tubular networks, and the model information is used to generate a camera...