US Patent Issued to Covidien on Aug. 11 for "Automatic steering of an introducer with a video laryngoscope" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,286, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Automatic steering of an introducer with a video laryngoscope" was invented by Peter D.C. Inglis (Boulder, Colo.) and Derek S. Tata (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for automatic steering of a blind introducer based on images from an independent camera (e.g., a camera of a video laryngoscope) are disclosed. A real time image of a video laryngoscope may be analyzed by a trained ML model to output a classification for the image. The classification may be associated with steering instructions for an introducer. The steering instru...