Patents by Inventor Beat Peter Mueller-Stich

Beat Peter Mueller-Stich has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System and Computer Assisted Surgery
    Publication number: 20120109151
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method of computer assisted surgery in soft tissue. The system comprises a navigated instrument (14) suitable to be inserted into a living object's soft tissue body part, wherein said navigated instrument (14) when inserted into the body part is suitable to define at least a portion of a section plane with respect to said soft tissue body part. The system further comprises a computer assisted guiding means to assist or enable guiding the instrument (14) upon insertion into the body part such that the section plane defined by said inserted instrument (14) coincides with a planned section plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicants: RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITÄT HEIDELBERG, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Stiftung des öffentlichen Rechts
    Inventors: Lena Maier-Hein, Hannes Kenngott, Hans-Peter Meinzer, Beat Peter Mueller-Stich