ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,894, issued on March 17, was assigned to GANYMED ROBOTICS (Paris).

"Method and device for segmentation and registration of an anatomical structure" was invented by Loic Peter (Zurich, Switzerland), Nicolas Loy Rodas (Gennevilliers, France) and Marion Decrouez (Sevres, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for segmentation of a preoperative model of a target anatomical structure in view of the registration of said preoperative model with an image of a target anatomical structure exposed during surgery."

The patent was filed on Jan. 19, 2023, under Application No. 18/156,572.

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