US Patent Issued to Korea University Research and Business Foundation on Aug. 5 for "Method and apparatus for surgical procedure simulation based on virtual reality" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,906, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for surgical procedure simulation based on virtual reality" was invented by Jae Chul Koh (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for a surgical procedure simulation based on virtual reality (VR) are provided. The method includes generating a virtual three-dimensional (3D) body model corresponding to a body part of a subject of a surgical procedure based on a computed tomography (CT) image and providing a surgical procedure simulation for spinal cord stimulation based on ...