US Patent Issued to Industrial Technology Research Institute on Jan. 13 for "Computer-assisted needle insertion method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,144, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Computer-assisted needle insertion method" was invented by Po-An Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Chi Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Chien (Nantou County, Taiwan), Chia-Pin Li (Taichung, Taiwan), Kun-Ta Wu (Nantou County, Taiwan) and Wei-Zheng Lu (Chiayi, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-assisted needle insertion method is provided. The computer-assisted needle insertion method includes the following steps. A first machine learning model and a second machine learning model are obtained. A computed tomography image and...