ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,951, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Robotic bronchoscopy navigation method and system" was invented by An-Peng Wang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Chien-Yu Wu (Yunlin County, Taiwan), Cheng-Peng Kuan (Zhubei City, Taiwan) and Shu Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic bronchoscopy navigation method, performed by a processing control device, includes: performing a navigation procedure according to obtained navigation image, the navigation procedure including: determining whether the navigation image has a node, if the navigation image does not ...