US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on March 24 for "Method and system for automatic planning of a minimally invasive thermal ablation and method for training a neural network" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,479, issued on March 24, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Method and system for automatic planning of a minimally invasive thermal ablation and method for training a neural network" was invented by Chloe Audigier (Bern, Switzerland) and Tommaso Mansi (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for planning a thermal ablation of a target object within a biological body includes acquiring an object image within the body, determining an object position within the body from the image, determining external body surface position relative to the object position from the image,...