ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,460, issued on June 17, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Determining ablation probe configuration" was invented by Alfonso Agatino Isola (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Christoph Neukirchen (Aachen, Germany) and Marco Baragona (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a medical system (100, 300) comprising a processor (104). Execution of the machine executable (112) instructions causes a processor (104) to: receive (200) three-dimensional medical image data (114) descriptive of a subject (318); receive (202) a desired ablation volume (116), wherein the desired ablation volume ...