US Patent Issued to Covidien on Nov. 3 for "Systems for dynamic 3D lung visualization while navigating a catheter within the lung" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,680, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Systems for dynamic 3D lung visualization while navigating a catheter within the lung" was invented by Oren P. Weingarten (Hod-Hasharon, Israel) and Ron Barak (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for implementing a dynamic three-dimensional lung map view for navigating a probe inside a patient's lungs includes loading a navigation plan into a navigation system, the navigation plan including a planned pathway shown in a 3D model generated from a plurality of CT images, inserting the probe into a patient's airways, registering a sensed location ...