US Patent Issued to Cornell University on March 17 for "Augmented reality guidance system for cardiac interventional surgery" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,885, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Augmented reality guidance system for cardiac interventional surgery" was invented by Jun Liu (New York), Bobak Mosadegh (New York), Gurpreet Singh (Harrison, N.J.), Simon Dunham (New York), James K. Min (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Subhi Al'Aref (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and method described herein can generate guidance images that can indicate the real-time position of a medical device within an anatomical target. For example, the images can be high-resolution, 3D holographic renderings of a catheter (an example medical device) within a...