US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 21 for "Intraluminal and extraluminal image registration" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,514, issued on July 21, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Intraluminal and extraluminal image registration" was invented by Ehud Nachtomy (Herzliya, Israel) and Michael Zarkh (Qiryat Ono, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and computer-implemented methods of registering positions of a temporal sequence of intraluminal sensing device data (1011.. m) to positions along a guidewire (104) in a temporal sequence of extraluminal image frames (1051.. n) include: determining (S120) a position of a sensing portion (106) of the intraluminal sensing device (102) along the guidewire (104), based on a ...