US Patent Issued to Covidien on Feb. 24 for "Creating a navigation pathway to a target in the lung and method of navigating to the target" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,164, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Creating a navigation pathway to a target in the lung and method of navigating to the target" was invented by Scott E.M. Frushour (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing a surgical procedure includes a controller including a memory and a processor, the memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to receive a plurality of pre-procedure images of a patient's anatomy, label anatomical structures within at least a portion of the pre-procedure images, generate a three-dimensional reconstruction ...