US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on July 14 for "System and method for percutaneous needle insertion" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,230, issued on July 14, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"System and method for percutaneous needle insertion" was invented by Martin Wagner (Madison, Wis.), Fred T. Lee Jr. (Madison, Wis.), James Louis Hinshaw (Middleton, Wis.), Giuseppe V. Toia (Verona, Wis.) and Meridith A. Kisting (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for evaluating percutaneous needle pathways provides an automatic segmentation of local tissue structures and performs a weighting to rank a large number of paths to quickly identify clinically favorable choices."

The patent was filed on March 3, 2023...