US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods utilizing machine-learning for in vivo navigation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,947, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Systems and methods utilizing machine-learning for in vivo navigation" was invented by Kyle True (Minneapolis), Daniel J. Foster (Lino Lakes, Minn.) and Sebastian Ordas Carboni (Vadnais Heights, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing in vivo navigation of a medical device includes: receiving input medical imaging data of a patient's anatomy; receiving input non-optical in vivo image data from a sensor on a distal end of the device in the anatomy; using a trained model to locate the distal end in the input imaging data, whe...