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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2020
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Jerry Timothy Long, Jr., Concord, MA (US);
Timothy Paul Harrah, Cambridge, MA (US);
Brandon W. Craft, Edgewater, MD (US);
Elizabeth A. Stokley, Baltimore, MD (US);
Sebastian Koerner, Berlin, DE;
Anant Subramaniam, Baltimore, MD (US);
Paul James Fearis, Owings Mills, MD (US);
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Abstract
A guidance method comprising: placing a tracking pad adjacent a body, the tracking pad including a guiding opening and a plurality of sensors, locating a distal end of a needle inside of the guiding opening at an insertion point adjacent the body, the needle including at least one beacon, operating the plurality of sensors with the at least one beacon to track an actual disposition of the needle, establishing a target disposition for the needle, moving the needle in a direction of movement to synchronize the actual disposition with the target disposition, and inserting the distal end of the needle into the body along an insertion axis.