ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,229, issued on July 14, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Systems and method of planning thoracic surgery" was invented by Evgeni Kopel (Barkan, Israel), Gabriella Goranov (Bat Yam, Israel), 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: "Systems and method of planning thoracic surgery. A three-dimensional model is generated to provide greater clarity between lung segments as well as identifying the airways and vasculature supporting the lung segment to enable accurate surgical planning."
The patent was filed on Sept. 30,...