ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,501, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Optimization in ablation treatment planning" was invented by Christoph Neukirchen (Aachen, Germany), Alfonso Agatino Isola (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Marco Baragona (Delft, Netherlands), Zoi Tokoutsi (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Martijn De Greef (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of providing optimized values of treatment parameters of a thermal ablation device for treating a region of interest within a subject, is provided. The method includes: iteratively adjusting initial values of the treatm...