ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,528, issued on July 28, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Stenosis localization" was invented by Raoul Florent (Ville d'Avray, France), Caroline Denise Francoise Raynaud (Suresnes, France) and Vincent Maurice Andre Auvray (Meudon, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to localizing stenoses. In order to provide improved and facilitated stenosis localization, a device (10) for localizing a stenosis in an angiogram is provided. The device comprises an image supply (12), a data processor (14) and an output (16). The image supply is configured to provide a first image (18) a...