ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,883, issued on July 7, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Failure detection for segmentation of an image" was invented by Jochen Peters (Norderstedt, Germany), Matthias Lenga (Mainz, Germany), Tobias Wissel (Lubeck, Germany), Irina Waechter-Stehle (Hamburg, Germany), Frank Michael Weber (Norderstedt, Germany), Arne Ewald (Hamburg, Germany), Andre Goossen (Eldena, Germany) and Sebastian Wild (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for determining a score indicative of a success of a segmentation of a 3D image, i.e. a success score. The mechanism proposes to obtain one or more 2D ima...