US Patent Issued to Brainlab on Aug. 25 for "Determining a surgical port for a trocar or laparoscope" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,499, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Brainlab AG (Munich).

"Determining a surgical port for a trocar or laparoscope" was invented by Ferdinand Storch (Munich), Mark Fingerle (Munich) and Martin Immerz (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of determining an entry region for inserting elongated medical instruments such as trocars or laparoscopes into an anatomical body part such as the abdomen. The determination is made on the basis of a patient image and a known or assumed geometry of the medical instruments and a known position of the target region, and risk structures which shall be avo...