US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on July 21 for "Method of registering ultrasound images to an anatomical map" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,594, issued on July 21, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method of registering ultrasound images to an anatomical map" was invented by Alexander Franciscus Kolen (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Martinus Bernardus Van Der Mark (Best, Netherlands), Gerardus Henricus Maria Gijsbers (Liempde, Netherlands) and Godefridus Antonius Harks (Rijen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for registering ultrasound images with an anatomical map generated using a dielectric imaging process. The positions of electrodes that move with the ultrasound probe are monitored using the same dielectric imaging s...