US Patent Issued to Covidien on Aug. 4 for "Systems and methods of visualizing a medical device relative to a target" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,081, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods of visualizing a medical device relative to a target" was invented by Evgeni Kopel (Barkan, Israel), Oren P. Weingarten (Hod-Hasharon, Israel), Ariel Birenbaum (Raanana, Israel) and Michael E. Calcutt (Burnsville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of visualizing a current view of a tool relative to a lesion by processing current fluoroscopic images from a current fluoroscopic sweep occurring after an initial fluoroscopic sweep. The processing includes determining the locations and/or orientations of a tool and a lesion in...