US Patent Issued to Ziteo on March 4 for "Methods and systems for localization of targets inside a body" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,301, issued on March 4, was assigned to Ziteo Inc. (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for localization of targets inside a body" was invented by Lucian Mihailescu (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Michael J. Quinlan (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) and Victor Arie Negut (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates, in part, to a scanning sufficiency apparatus that computes whether a handheld scanning device has scanned a volume for a sufficiently long time for there to be detections and then indicate to the user that the time is sufficient in 3-D rendered voxels. Also described is a hand held medical navig...