US Patent Issued to CANON U.S.A. on Dec. 30 for "Parametric contour map visualization for needle guide system" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,082, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CANON U.S.A. INC. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Parametric contour map visualization for needle guide system" was invented by Yu Zhang (Concord, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are planning, navigation and simulation systems and methods for minimally invasive image-guided percutaneous intervention in which the planning method and system use patient-specific pre-operative images and instrument-specific parameters to generate a planned insertion path. A system includes a needle guide device that interfaces with a computing device to guide a needle-like probe towards target location wit...