US Patent Issued to Covidien on April 21 for "Systems and methods for automatic blood vessel extraction" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,886, issued on April 21, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for automatic blood vessel extraction" was invented by Ariel Birenbaum (Raanana, Israel), Ofer Barasofsky (Tel Mond, Israel), Guy Alexandroni (Yehud-Monosson, Israel) and Irina Shevlev (Ashdod, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of image processing include a processor in communication with a display and a computer readable recording medium having instructions executed by the processor to read a three-dimensional (3D) image data set from the computer-readable recording medium and automatically generate a tree structure...