Patents by Inventor Benoît Combes

Benoît Combes 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).

  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AIDING IN THE POSITIONING OF A MEDICAL INSTRUMENT ON THE HEAD OF A PATIENT
    Publication number: 20140046342
    Abstract: A system for aiding in the positioning of a medical instrument on the head of a patient, characterized in that it includes a means for predicting the location of a target intracranial area of the medical instrument, comprising a generic three-dimensional model of a head comprising a scalp and a generic target intracranial area, a three-dimensional working image of the scalp of the head of the patient, surface registration means suitable for establishing a registration transform from the scalp of the generic model toward the working image of the scalp of the head of the patient, a means for resampling the generic target intracranial area into a converted target area using with the registration transform, and a means for locating the target intracranial area of the patient from the locating of the converted target area, thereby enabling the positioning of the medical instrument on the head of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicants: INRIA INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE, CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE RENNES, UNIVERSITE DE RENNES 1
    Inventors: Pierre Hellier, Xavier Morandi, Benoît Combes, Charles Garraud, Sylvain Prima