US Patent Issued to ClearPoint Neuro on Feb. 24 for "Automatic neurosurgical target and entry point identification" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,910, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ClearPoint Neuro Inc. (Solana Beach, Calif.).

"Automatic neurosurgical target and entry point identification" was invented by Christian R. Osswald (Roselle, Ill.), Lyubomir G. Zagorchev (Burlington, Mass.), Timothy N. Orr (Vaughan, Canada) and Philip B. Hotte (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the presently disclosed technology provide systems and methods for automatically identifying candidate target locations and candidate surgical trajectories using a functional brain activity scan mapped to patient-specific 3D brain structure representations generated from a str...