ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,087, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for endoscopic image reconstruction" was invented by Kurt G. Shelton (Bedford, Mass.) and Sergey A. Bukesov (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for endoscopic mapping of a target and tracking of endoscope locations inside a subject's body during a procedure are disclosed. An exemplary system comprises an imaging system configured to capture an endoscopic image of the target that includes a footprint of an aiming beam directed at the target, and a video processor configured to identifying one or mor...