ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,949, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to REMEDY ROBOTICS INC. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for guidance of intraluminal devices within the vasculature" was invented by Jake Anthony Sganga (San Francisco), David James Bell (Mill Valley, Calif.), Benjamin Fredrickson (Gualala, Calif.) and Gregory Kahn (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System for guiding an instrument within a vascular network of a patient are disclosed. In some embodiments, the system receives a medical image from a medical imaging device and identifies a distal tip and a direction the instrument in the image. The system may then determine a wayp...