US Patent Issued to Zap Surgical Systems on Feb. 11 for "Imaging systems and methods for image-guided radiosurgery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,270, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Zap Surgical Systems Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Imaging systems and methods for image-guided radiosurgery" was invented by Younes Achkire (San Francisco), Raymond Wilbur (San Jose, Calif.), John Adler (Stanford, Calif.), Manoocher Birang (Los Gatos, Calif.), Radhika Mohan Bodduluri (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hui Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Tom McDermott (San Carlos, Calif.), Chris Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Kaustubh Sonawale (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Cesare Jenkins (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-shielded and computer controlled system for performing non-invasive stereotactic radios...