US Patent Issued to TECHSOMED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 11 for "Deriving tissue damage estimations from ultrasound images during thermal ablation" (Israeli, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,385, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TECHSOMED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LTD (Rehovot, Israel).

"Deriving tissue damage estimations from ultrasound images during thermal ablation" was invented by Michael Schwenke (Lilienthal, Germany), Yehonatan Ben David (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Tom Edlund (Neve Shalom, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ultrasound (US) modules and methods in US image-guided systems for thermal ablation are provided, which utilize regular two-dimensional (2D) B mode US images to evaluate in real-time the damage achieved by the thermal ablation, including the prediction of tissue damage immediately after completion o...