ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,762, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to B. Braun New Ventures GmbH (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany).
"Endoscopic navigation pointer" was invented by Amir Sarvestani (Freiburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument can be used with a surgical assistance system, display method and storage medium. The instrument includes a handling portion, an end portion, a tip for examining tissue, and a shaft interconnecting the handling portion and the end portion. The handling portion includes a reference system having a predefined position relative to the tip, so that a position and/or orientation of the tip can be determined. A...