US Patent Issued to INJE UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on June 23 for "Surface image guidance-based system for aligning and monitoring patient position" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,679, issued on June 23, was assigned to INJE UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Gimhae-si, South Korea).

"Surface image guidance-based system for aligning and monitoring patient position" was invented by Moon Jun Sohn (Seoul, South Korea), Chi Woong Mun (Busan, South Korea) and Haeng Hwa Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a surface image guidance-based system for aligning and monitoring patient position including a first RGB depth optical camera positioned toward a table, on which a patient may lie, and configured to capture an image of a right side of the patient's body, a second RG...