US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Aug. 26 for "OSS guiding and monitoring systems, controllers and methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,807, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"OSS guiding and monitoring systems, controllers and methods" was invented by Molly Lara Flexman (Melrose, Mass.), Paul Thienphrapa (Cambridge, Mass.), Torre Michelle Bydlon (Melrose, Mass.), Alexandru Patriciu (Belmont, Mass.) and Ashish Panse (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An OSS guiding and monitoring system employs an interventional device (40) including an integration of a OSS sensor (20) and one or more interventional tools (30), the OSS sensor (20) for generating shape sensing data informative of a shape of the OSS sen...