ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,820, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Identifying out-of-plane deviation" was invented by Marcin Arkadiusz Balicki (Cambridge, Mass.) and Molly Lara Flexman (Melrose, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of identifying an out-of-plane deviation of an elongate interventional device (110). The method includes identifying (SI 30) in the one or more X-ray images (180), and based on a distance (1901.. n-1) between one or more pairs of the fiducial markers (1601.. n) detected in the one or more X-ray images (180), a position of one or more segments (1701.. ...