ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,006, issued on July 14, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Image acquisition visuals for augmented reality" was invented by Markus Johannes Harmen Den Hartog (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Javier Olivan Bescos (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure encompass a visual image sequence controller (40) for controlling an augmentation of a visual imaging sequence acquisition of an interventional imaging sequence in a rendered augmented view of an image-guided intervention by an augmented reality device (30). The visual imaging sequence acquisition ...