ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,214, issued on April 21, was assigned to BRAINLAB SE (Munich).
"Atlas-based trajectory planning" was invented by Yannic Meurer (Munich) and Andreas Blumhofer (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of planning a straight trajectory in a medical image of an anatomical structure. A template of the straight trajectory is given in an atlas and the atlas is registered with the medical image. The atlas is divided into a first area and one or more second areas, wherein the first area comprises the straight trajectory and the one or more second areas do not comprise any part of the straight trajecto...