US Patent Issued to ClearPoint Neuro on Feb. 24 for "Laser interstitial thermal therapy in the operating room" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,159, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ClearPoint Neuro Inc. (Solana Beach, Calif.).

"Laser interstitial thermal therapy in the operating room" was invented by Lyubomir Zagorchev (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the presently disclosed technology provide new systems and methods for real-time temperature propagation and tissue damage visualization during laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) procedures that do not rely on real-time MR imaging. Accordingly, examples enable performance of LITT procedures in regular operating rooms lacking MR-equipment-thereby reducing costs and improving availability fo...