US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on May 26 for "Risk management for robotic catheter navigation systems" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,086, issued on May 26, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Risk management for robotic catheter navigation systems" was invented by Tommaso Mansi (Plainsboro, N.J.), Young-Ho Kim (West Windsor, N.J.), Rui Liao (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Yue Zhang (Jersey City, N.J.), Puneet Sharma (Princeton Junction, N.J.) and Dorin Comaniciu (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for navigating a catheter in a patient using a robotic navigation system with risk management are provided. An input medical image of a patient is received. A trajectory for navigating a catheter from a current positi...