US Patent Issued to ADAPTIIV MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 7 for "Patient-specific immobilization structure and system and method for fabrication thereof" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,219, issued on July 7, was assigned to ADAPTIIV MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Halifax, Canada).

"Patient-specific immobilization structure and system and method for fabrication thereof" was invented by James L. Robar (Halifax, Canada), Christopher Majcher (Dartmouth, Canada) and Radojka Orbovic (Halifax, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for modelling and fabricating a patient-specific immobilization support. Image data is obtained for characterizing an exposed surface of a body portion and a support structure employed to support the body portion during imaging. The image data is processed to determin...