ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,796, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).
"View-based robotic intra-cardiac catheter guidance" was invented by Jarrod Collins (Wilsonville, Ore.), Young-Ho Kim (West Windsor, N.J.), Tommaso Mansi (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Sebastien Piat (Lawrence Township, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For view-dependent control, different desired imaging catheter views are defined. A robotic catheter system may alter from one view to another view based on activation but otherwise hands-free by the operator. This pre-definition of views and swapping views intra-operatively provides procedure monitor...