US Patent Issued to Covidien on July 28 for "Systems and methods for estimating needle pose" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,858, issued on July 28, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for estimating needle pose" was invented by Steven J. Levine (Framingham, Mass.) and Meir Rosenberg (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for tissue suturing guidance in a surgical site includes an imaging device configured to capture an image of a surgical needle within the surgical site and an imaging device control unit configured to control the imaging device. The imaging device control unit includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the system to capture...