US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Aug. 5 for "Image guided robotic system for tumor aspiration" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,738, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Image guided robotic system for tumor aspiration" was invented by Aleksandra Popovic (Boston) and David Paul Noonan (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot controller (515) includes a first input (502) configured to receive images (524) from an imaging device for a region of interest. A target identification device (516) is configured to identify a target region in the images. A control system (517) is coupled to a robotically controlled treatment device to generate control signals to control the treatment device to treat the target reg...