US Patent Issued to PROCEPT BioRobotics on July 21 for "Tissue protection systems and methods" (California, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,607, issued on July 21, was assigned to PROCEPT BioRobotics Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Tissue protection systems and methods" was invented by Qingxiang Ke (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Bentley (Reno, Nev.) and Nishey Wanchoo (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probe configured to deliver energy to a first tissue is placed in the first tissue, and an imaging device is configured to image a second tissue with the probe placed in the first tissue. Image data from the second tissue is processed to evaluate the effect of the energy source on the second tissue. In some embodiments, the image data from the second tissue is used ...