US Patent Issued to Canon U.S.A. on May 27 for "System and method for intra-operative percutaneous ablation planning" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,665, issued on May 27, was assigned to Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"System and method for intra-operative percutaneous ablation planning" was invented by Antonio Bonillas Vaca (Boston) and Barret Daniels (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, and methods for percutaneous ablation of a tumor in a sample, object, or subject, and more specifically, for percutaneous tumor ablation with the ability for real-time, intra-operative ablation planning, execution, and/or adjustment, are provided herein. One or more apparatuses, systems, and methods may operate to detect a region of interest in an image, sub...