US Patent Issued to Covidien on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for visualizing navigation of medical devices relative to targets" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,177, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for visualizing navigation of medical devices relative to targets" was invented by Irina Shevlev (Ashdod, Israel), Guy Alexandroni (Yehud-Monosson, Israel), Evgeni Kopel (Barkan, Israel), Oren P. Weingarten (Hod-Hasharon, Israel), Scott E. M. Frushour (Boulder, Colo.), Dafna Mardix (Herzliya, Israel), Daniel Ovadia (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Mark Zbarjevsky (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for visualizing navigation of a medical device with respect to a target using a live fluoroscopic view. The methods include d...