US Patent Issued to MicronVision on Oct. 27 for "Hand-held, robotic-assisted endoscope with position tracking" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,091, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MicronVision Corp. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Hand-held, robotic-assisted endoscope with position tracking" was invented by Xiaolong Ouyang (Bellevue, Wash.), James Ouyang (Bellevue, Wash.), Diana Ouyang (Bellevue, Wash.) and Shih-Ping Wang (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact, hand-held, robotic assisted endoscopic system configured to derive the position and/or orientation CamPose of a distal part of a single-use portion relative to coordinates HandPose of a reusable portion of an endoscope and display juxtaposed images of an object such a patient's organ being diagnosed or tr...