US Patent Issued to ClearPoint Neuro on Oct. 7 for "Automatic, patient-specific targeting for deep brain stimulation" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,680, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ClearPoint Neuro Inc. (Solana Beach, Calif.).

"Automatic, patient-specific targeting for deep brain stimulation" was invented by Chen Li (Lebanon, N.H.), Damon Hyde (Somerville, Mass.) and Lyubomir Zagorchev (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the presently disclosed technology provide new systems and methods for performing direct targeting for DBS procedures (and other related procedures) using a single pre-operative scan of a patient's brain. Examples can achieve this single-scan direct targeting by leveraging mesh vertex-based correspondences between patient-specific ...