US Patent Issued to Covidien on Aug. 25 for "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for non-rigid registration of electromagnetic navigation space to CT volume" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,329, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for non-rigid registration of electromagnetic navigation space to CT volume" was invented by Lev A. Koyrakh (Plymouth, Minn.), Ron Barak (Tel Aviv, Israel), Oren P. Weingarten (Hod-Hasharon, Israel) and Alexander Nepomniashchy (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for registering electromagnetic navigation data of a luminal network to a 3D model of the luminal network includes accessing a 3D model of a luminal network based on computed tomographic (CT) images o...