Patents by Inventor Françoise Lefebvre

Françoise Lefebvre 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).

  • Peroperative sensing head adapted to be coupled to an ablation tool
    Patent number: 10478158
    Abstract: The invention concerns a preoperative probe (2) for guiding an ablation tool, comprising a sensing head (21), said sensing head including: at least one optic fiber (2121, 2123) for receiving and guiding a signal emitted, by radioactive tracers and/or fluorescent molecules in a tissue zone, to an analyzing equipment (32), fixing means (2112) for mounting the head (21) on the ablation tool (1), such that the ablation tool is capable of extracting a portion of tissue in the tissue zone emitting the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (CNRS)
    Inventors: Laurent Menard, Sébastien Bonzom, Yves Charon, Marie-Alix Duval, Françoise Lefebvre, Stéphane Palfi, Laurent Pinot, Rainer Siebert, Stéphanie Pitre