US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Feb. 3 for "3D tracking of interventional medical devices" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,175, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"3D tracking of interventional medical devices" was invented by Kunal Vaidya (Boston), Ameet Kumar Jain (Boston), Ramon Quido Erkamp (Swampscott, Mass.), Shyam Bharat (Arlington, Mass.), Alvin Chen (Cambridge, Mass.) and Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller (210) for tracking an interventional medical device (252) in three dimensions includes a memory (212) that stores instructions, and a processor (211) that executes the instructions. When executed by the processor (211), the instructions c...