US Patent Issued to Gynesonics on Jan. 27 for "Methods and systems for real-time planning and monitoring of ablation needle deployment in tissue" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,177, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Gynesonics Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for real-time planning and monitoring of ablation needle deployment in tissue" was invented by Jiayu Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hyeonsoo Chang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Edmond Ming Wai Chiu (San Francisco), Amer Hammudi (Tracy, Calif.), Harry Kwan (San Francisco) and Michael A. Munrow (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control handle of a treatment probe is manipulated to advance and/or deploy one or more treatment structures into tissue. The treatment probe is coupled to a display to show an image field including target tiss...