ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,235, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to PROCEPT BioRobotics Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Automated image-guided tissue resection and treatment" was invented by Nikolai Aljuri (Hillsborough, Calif.), Surag Mantri (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Luis Baez (Mountain View, Calif.), George Surjan (Redwood City, Calif.), Michael W. Sasnett (Los Altos, Calif.) and Jonathan Foote (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to treat a patient comprises a user interface that allows a physician to view an image of tissue to be treated in order to develop a treatment plan to resect tissue with a predefined removal profile. The image may compr...