US Patent Issued to Dignity Health, Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University on May 13 for "Systems and methods for volumetric measurement of maximal allowable working volume within a surgical corridor" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,664, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dignity Health (San Francisco) and Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for volumetric measurement of maximal allowable working volume within a surgical corridor" was invented by Lena Mary Houlihan (Tempe, Ariz.), David Naughton (San Francisco) and Mark C. Preul (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of a system and associated method for determining a volume of surgical freedom using a plurality of three-dimensional extrema points along a surgical corridor in relation to a structure of interest are disclose...