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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2011
Roderick A. Hyde, Redmond, WA (US);
Jordin T. Kare, Seattle, WA (US);
Eric C. Leuthardt, St. Louis, MO (US);
Erez Lieberman, Cambridge, MA (US);
Dennis J. Rivet, Chesapeake, VA (US);
Elizabeth A. Sweeney, Seattle, WA (US);
Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
Roderick A. Hyde, Redmond, WA (US);
Jordin T. Kare, Seattle, WA (US);
Eric C. Leuthardt, St. Louis, MO (US);
Erez Lieberman, Cambridge, MA (US);
Dennis J. Rivet, Chesapeake, VA (US);
Elizabeth A. Sweeney, Seattle, WA (US);
Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
GEARBOX, LLC, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
A described system includes a feature matching circuit that determines a correspondence between a present-location landmark subsurface feature of a body part of an individual patient and a candidate reference landmark subsurface feature of the individual patient body part. The present-location landmark subsurface feature has a first spatial relationship to a distal end portion of a body-insertable device deployed in the individual patient. The candidate reference landmark subsurface feature has a second spatial relationship to a particular selected target region of interest of at least two selected target regions of interest. An event data circuit generates data indicative of a proximity event that includes the distal end portion of a body-insertable device being proximate to the particular target region of interest. A list management circuit adds the proximity event to a proximity event list. A computer-readable media maintains informational data corresponding to the proximity event list.