ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,091, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Planning apparatus for determining an ablation probe parameter for a single ablation probe or for multiple ablation probes" was invented by Zoi Tokoutsi (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Martin Grepl (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Marco Baragona (Delft, Netherlands), Alfonso Agatino Isola (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Jacek Lukasz Kustra (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Ralph Theodorus Hubertus Maessen (Roermond, Netherlands) and Karen Veroy-Grepl (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a planning apparatus (1) for determining an...