US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for guiding tissue resection" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,434, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.

"Systems and methods for guiding tissue resection" was invented by Venkataramanan Krishnaswamy (Lebanon, N.H.), Richard J. Barth Jr. (Hanover, N.H.) and Keith D. Paulsen (Hanover, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient-specific device for guiding resection of a tumor located in local tissue of a patient includes a locator form and a surgical guidance cue. The locator form has a locator-form surface matching a surface of the local tissue of the patient near the tumor's location when the local tissue is imaged in a preoperative position, such that the loc...