ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,293, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Navigating an interventional device" was invented by Ashish Sattyavrat Panse (Burlington, Mass.), Grzegorz Andrzej Toporek (Cambridge, Mass.), Molly Lara Flexman (Melrose, Mass.) and Ayushi Sinha (Baltimore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of providing navigation guidance for navigating an interventional device within the anatomy, includes: receiving (S110) interventional device shape data (110) representing a shape of the interventional device (120) at one or more time steps (t1.. n), the time steps including at le...