US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on July 7 for "Object visualization" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,935, issued on July 7, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Object visualization" was invented by Thijs Elenbaas (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Robin Pieter De Paus (Breda, Netherlands), Frans Henk Kremer (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Paula Andrea Rudenick (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Peggy Nachtigall (Knegsel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object visualization device comprising an image supply, a data processor, and an output. The image supply provides a 2D X-ray image and 3D image data of the object. The data processor registers the 3D image data to the 2D X-ray image, detects a viewing direction...