US Patent Issued to ClearPoint Neuro on April 15 for "Method for bone collision detection using a stereotactic image-guided navigation system" (Massachusetts, California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,587, issued on April 15, was assigned to ClearPoint Neuro Inc. (Solana Beach, Calif.).

"Method for bone collision detection using a stereotactic image-guided navigation system" was invented by Lyubomir Zagorchev (Burlington, Mass.), Damon Hyde (Somerville, Mass.), Chen Li (Plainfield, Ohio), Philip Bradley Hotte (Solana Beach, Calif.) and Timothy Neil Orr (Solana Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided that automatically determine whether a prospective surgical trajectory will collide with a patient's skull using a 3D representation of the patient's cranial region (including the patient's scalp, s...