US Patent Issued to Covidien on Nov. 4 for "Treatment procedure planning system and method" (Colorado, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,468, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Treatment procedure planning system and method" was invented by Jeetendra Bharadwaj (Erie, Colo.), Kevin J. Frank (Louisville, Colo.), Darren G. Girotto (Louisville, Colo.) and Benjamin M. Corum (Mattapan, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for planning surgical procedure including a treatment zone setting view presenting at least one slice of a 3D reconstruction generated from CT image data including a target. The treatment zone setting view presenting a treatment zone marker defining a location and a size of a treatment zone and configured ...