US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on July 7 for "Camera based detection of subject position" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,779, issued on July 7, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Camera based detection of subject position" was invented by Sascha Krueger (Hamburg, Germany) and Julien Thomas Senegas (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a medical system (100, 300) comprising a memory (110) storing machine executable instructions (120) and an anatomical keypoint locator module (122). The anatomical keypoint locator module is configured to output a set of anatomical keypoint coordinates (126) of a subject (318) in response to receiving a camera image (124) descriptive of the subject. The medica...