US Patent Issued to ACREW IMAGING on May 26 for "Method and apparatus of fusion of multimodal images to fluoroscopic images" (Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,835, issued on May 26, was assigned to ACREW IMAGING INC. (Ocean View, Del.).

"Method and apparatus of fusion of multimodal images to fluoroscopic images" was invented by William Plishker (Ocean View, Del.) and Craig Hughes (Ocean View, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes a device for transforming 3D image data such that the transformed image aligns with a 2D fluoroscopic image. The process of finding the transform that aligns the features of the 3D image with the 2D image is called image registration. The fluoroscopic image registration process has at its core a multistage framework that progressively r...