US Patent Issued to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Oct. 7 for "Variable cryosurgical probe planning system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,660, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Variable cryosurgical probe planning system" was invented by Shenghao Bao (Ladera Ranch, Calif.) and Jay J. Eum (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cryosurgical system includes a probe system including a cryosurgical probe and a temperature probe; an imaging system; and a computer system operatively connected to the probe system and the imaging system and programmed with a graphical depth guide application that provides a graphical overlay on an image from the imaging system that includes a first scale of first spaced markers represen...