US Patent Issued to Materialise on April 21 for "Surgery planning system with automated defect quantification" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,208, issued on April 21, was assigned to Materialise N.V. (Leuven, Belgium).

"Surgery planning system with automated defect quantification" was invented by Katrien Plessers (Leuven, Belgium), Filip Jonkergouw (Leuven, Belgium), Maarten Zandbergen (Leuven, Belgium), Nele Daemen (Leuven, Belgium) and Janelle Schrot (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for preparing medical treatment plans, comprising: acquiring medical image data associated with an anatomy of a patient; creating a three-dimensional anatomy model based on the medical image data; fitting a statistic...