ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,174, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Method and apparatus of obtaining body depth information for a patient" was invented by Lena Christina Frerking (Hamburg, Germany), Julien Thomas Senegas (Hamburg, Germany) and Daniel Bystrov (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided of obtaining body depth information for a patient who is lying on patient support. A patient support depth map of the upper surface of the patient support is obtained without the patient as well as an image and patient depth map of the patient on the patient support. Landmark body posit...