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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2023
Applicant:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Inventors:
Martin Wagner, Madison, WI (US);
Fred T. Lee, Jr., Madison, WI (US);
James Louis Hinshaw, Middleton, WI (US);
Giuseppe V. Toia, Verona, WI (US);
Meridith A. Kisting, Madison, WI (US);
Assignee:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/10 (2016.01); A61B 17/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/10 (2016.02); A61B 17/3403 (2013.01); A61B 2034/107 (2016.02);
Abstract
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.