Parameter-based navigation by a lumen traveling device

Patent №

US 9,408,530

Granted

2016-08-09

Filed 2011

Owner

SEARETE LLC

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13136680

Methods of controlling the operation of a device traveling in a body tube tree, including sensing parameters from possible directions of travel and selecting the direction of travel based on the sensed parameters, implemented with a control system located partially or fully on the lumen traveling device. Various actions can be performed by the device for, e.g., medical or therapeutic purposes. Machine-readable media including instructions for performing the methods are also described.

PlanningA61B 1/041A61B 1/00156A61B 5/0022A61B 5/0031A61B 5/0071A61B 5/01A61B 5/062A61B 5/07+30 more

AI classification

Planning0.51
AI hardware0.27
Natural language0.02
Knowledge representation0.01
Evolutionary computation0.01
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

SEARETE LLC

assignment · 271310327

Assignors

FERREN, BRAN, HILLIS, W. DANIEL, HYDE, RODERICK A., ISHIKAWA, MURIEL Y., JUNG, EDWARD K.Y., LEUTHARDT, ERIC C., MYHRVOLD, NATHAN P., NUGENT, THOMAS J., JR., SWEENEY, ELIZABETH A., TEGREENE, CLARENCE T., WOOD, LOWELL L., JR., WOOD, VICTORIA Y.H.

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