US Patent Issued to Covidien on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods of assessing breath hold during intraprocedural imaging" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,053, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods of assessing breath hold during intraprocedural imaging" was invented by Evgeni Kopel (Barkan, Israel), Michael E. Calcutt (Burnsville, Minn.), Oren P. Weingarten (Hod-Hasharon, Israel), Ariel Birenbaum (Raanana, Israel) and Ofer Barasofsky (Tel Mond, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for improving a quality of images for local registration where a position of a sensor is monitored to determine whether a breath hold plateau has been achieved, and following imaging is monitored to determine whether the sensor position h...