US Patent Issued to Covidien on July 28 for "Locating tumors using structured light scanning" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,535, issued on July 28, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Locating tumors using structured light scanning" was invented by Joe D. Sartor (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in accordance with the present disclosure are systems for identifying a position of target tissue relative to surgical tools using a structured light detector. An exemplary system includes antennas configured to interact with a marker placed proximate target tissue inside a patient's body, a structured light pattern source, a structured light detector, a display device, and a computing device configured to receive data from the ...