US Patent Issued to AFFERA on June 16 for "Anatomical model generation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,616, issued on June 16, was assigned to AFFERA INC. (Watertown, Mass.).

"Anatomical model generation" was invented by Doron Harlev (Brookline, Mass.) and Geoffrey Peter Wright (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods of the present disclosure are directed to generating three-dimensional surface representations of an anatomic structure such as a heart cavity. More specifically, a three-dimensional surface representation of the anatomic structure is constrained relative to one or more anchor portions corresponding to received input regarding the location of anatomic features of the anatomic struct...