ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,232, issued on July 15, was assigned to Quantum Surgical (Montpellier, France).

"Method for predicting the recurrence of a lesion by image analysis" was invented by Estanislao Oubel (Montpellier, France), Lucien Blondel (Montpellier, France), Bertin Nahum (Castelnau-le-Lez, France) and Fernand Badano (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for evaluating in post-treatment an ablation of a portion of an anatomy of interest of an individual, the anatomy of interest comprising at least one lesion. The post-treatment evaluation method comprises in particular a step of automatically evaluating a ris...