ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,743, issued on June 16, was assigned to BRAINLAB SE (Munich).
"Combining angiographic information with fluoroscopic images" was invented by Martin Adamski (Munich) and Ferdinand Storch (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention, a plurality of image pairs, each consisting of a fluoroscopic image and an angiographic image taken from the same position and the same viewing direction onto the patient, is acquired. A live fluoroscopic image is registered individually with each fluoroscopic image within the image pairs, such that the spatial relationship between the live fluoroscopic image and the fluoroscopi...