US Patent Issued to Noah Medical on Sept. 22 for "Systems and methods for robotic endoscope with integrated tool-in-lesion-tomosynthesis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,835, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Noah Medical Corp. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for robotic endoscope with integrated tool-in-lesion-tomosynthesis" was invented by Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zhongming Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Nickolas Simon Saba (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic endoscopic system and method confirm whether a tool has reached a target region within a subject using tomosynthesis. While the tool is advanced into the target region, a fluoroscopic imager acquires a plurality of images, and a three-dimensional (3D) fluoroscopic image is reconstructed from the plural...