US Patent Issued to THE FIRST MEDICAL CENTER OF PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY GENERAL HOSPITAL, BEIJING ZOEZEN ROBOT on May 27 for "Intelligent planning method, device, equipment and medium for puncture path in PVP surgery" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,668, issued on May 27, was assigned to THE FIRST MEDICAL CENTER OF PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY GENERAL HOSPITAL (Beijing) and BEIJING ZOEZEN ROBOT Co. LTD (Beijing).

"Intelligent planning method, device, equipment and medium for puncture path in PVP surgery" was invented by Bin Shi (Beijing), Lihai Zhang (Beijing), Yonghong Zhang (Beijing) and Lei Hu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent puncture path planning method, a device, an equipment and a medium in a PVP operation. The method includes: intercepting a local CT image of a vertebral body from an image; identifying midpoint of the narrowest part of vertebral pedicle...