US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Feb. 24 for "Method and system for creating a navigation plan for a catheter with a robot" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,166, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and system for creating a navigation plan for a catheter with a robot" was invented by Alois Regensburger (Poxdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for creating a navigation plan for a catheter in tissue in dependence on a limit value distribution. In an embodiment, the method includes acquiring first elasticity data of the tissue via a first imaging modality; reading in first image data and assigning the first elasticity data to the first image data; determining the limit value distribution at least in dependence on the f...