US Patent Issued to SCENERAY on Jan. 13 for "Pathway planning apparatus, surgical system, and computer-readable storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,179, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SCENERAY Co. LTD (Suzhou, China).

"Pathway planning apparatus, surgical system, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Lei Chen (Suzhou, China), Weiran Zhu (Suzhou, China) and Yihua Ning (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pathway planning apparatus includes a processor configured to plan a pathway for implanting an electrode lead into a brain of a patient, wherein the planned pathway satisfies the following condition: if the electrode lead is implanted into the brain of the patient according to the pathway, the electrode lead is capable of simultaneously making conta...