ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,818, issued on March 11, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Apparatus and method for assisting puncture planning" was invented by Yinan Chen (Shanghai) and Fan Li (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention proposes an apparatus and method for assisting a user to plan a puncture trajectory within a region-of-interest of a subject. The apparatus comprises: a data interface (211) configured to receive anatomical data of the region-of-interest of the subject and to output the at least one candidate puncture trajectory, and a data processor (213) for calculating at least one candidate ...