Christopher Michael Kolin

Title: Christopher Michael Kolin and Respiratory Guidance for Navigational Bronchoscopy.

Introduction

Christopher Michael Kolin is an inventor associated with Maple Grove, Minnesota, and Covidien LP. His patent work addresses a challenge in navigational bronchoscopy: accounting for respiratory movement when guiding a catheter and biopsy or therapy tool toward a target inside a patient.

Latest Patents

Kolin is named on 1 patent: “Handling respiration during navigational bronchoscopy.” The invention describes detecting a catheter’s position near a target and locally updating the displayed relative positions and orientations of the catheter and target in a three-dimensional model. It also uses movement detected by multiple sensors to determine a respiration waveform. A user interface then indicates a period when advancing a biopsy or therapy tool is most likely to intersect the target, based on a portion of the waveform in which sensor movement falls within a desired range.

Career Highlights

Kolin’s listed patent reflects work on integrating respiratory-motion information with navigation and visualization during bronchoscopy. The approach is intended to help clinicians identify a more suitable moment to advance a tool toward a target.

Collaborations

Kolin’s listed coworkers include John W. Komp and Scott Em Frushour. His patent is associated with Covidien LP.

Conclusion

Christopher Michael Kolin’s patent focuses on using sensor-based respiration tracking to support more precisely timed tool advancement during navigational bronchoscopy.