US Patent Issued to Terumo Cardiovascular Systems on March 3 for "Augmented-reality endoscopic vessel harvesting" (Michigan, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,471, issued on March 3, was assigned to Terumo Cardiovascular Systems Corp. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Augmented-reality endoscopic vessel harvesting" was invented by Joseph Mark Geric (Livonia, Mich.), Takeshi Tsubouchi (Dexter, Mich.), Randal James Kadykowski (South Lyon, Mich.) and Tatsunori Fujii (Bear, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscopic vessel harvesting system for surgical removal of a blood vessel to be used for coronary bypass uses endoscopic instruments for isolating and severing the vessel. An endoscopic camera in the endoscopic instruments captures images from a distal tip of the instrument within a dissected tunn...