ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,547, issued on July 1, was assigned to Shanghai Shende Green Medical Era Healthcare Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai), Shende (Ningbo) Medical Device Technology Co. Ltd (Ningbo, China) and Nantong Shende Medical Device Technology Co. Ltd (Nantong, China).

"Automatic planning method and device for tissue ablation" was invented by Junjie Guo (Shanghai), Shengfa Zhang (Shanghai), Bo Wei (Shanghai), Bo Yang (Shanghai), Jiawei Gu (Shanghai), Hao Wu (Shanghai), Zihao Liu (Shanghai), Zhiqiang Su (Shanghai) and Jiabao Wen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an automatic planning method and a device for tissue ablation. The met...