US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 14 for "System and method for real-time fusion of acoustic image with reference image" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,144, issued on July 14, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method for real-time fusion of acoustic image with reference image" was invented by Jochen Kruecker (Andover, Mass.) and Grzegorz Andrzej Toporek (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for registering two dimensional (2D) acoustic images to a three dimensional (3D) reference image. The method comprises steps to access a 3D reference image of a region of interest (ROI) in a subject, segment the ROI to define a reference 3D coordinate system, acquire 2D acoustic images of the ROI without absolute spatial ...