ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,836, issued on July 7, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Handling respiration during navigational bronchoscopy" was invented by Evgeni Kopel (Barkan, Israel), John W. Komp (Dillon, Colo.), Scott E.M. Frushour (Boulder, Colo.), Scott Robert Tiesma (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), William J. Dickhans (Longmont, Colo.) and Christopher Michael Kolin (Mapel Grove, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of respiration compensation including detecting a position of a catheter proximate a target within a patient, performing a local registration to update a displayed relative position and orientation of the catheter and the target ...