ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,132, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"System and method for determining a target point for a needle biopsy" was invented by Xingyue Yi (Shanghai), Dongwei Chu (Shanghai) and Qifei Sun (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for determining a target point for a needle biopsy may be provided. The method may include obtaining a first localization image and a second localization image regarding a region of interest (ROI) of a subject. The method may include labelling a plurality of pairs of markers for the ROI on the first localization image and the second ...