ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,213, issued on April 21, was assigned to Olympus Corp. (Tokyo).
"Procedure guidance for safety" was invented by Hiroyuki Mino (Westborough, Mass.), Hirokazu Horio (Allentown, Pa.) and Kazuhiro Gono (Hachioji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for providing a computer-assisted endoscopic procedure guidance are disclosed. A procedure planning system can generate an endoscope navigation plan for a patient scheduled for an endoscopic procedure performed by an operating physician. The system comprises a processor that can access an endoscopic procedure database, identify therefrom physicians substantially...