ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,694, issued on June 16, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Image enhancement based on fiber optic shape-sensing" was invented by Torre Michelle Bydlon (Melrose, Mass.), Molly Lara Flexman (Melrose, Mass.), Raoul Florent (Ville D'Avray, France) and Roland Wilhelmus Maria Bullens (Mierlo, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an image processing system (10), comprising: a processor unit (20) arranged to receive imaging data associated with an imaging system (40) and optical shape sensing data associated with an optical shape sensing system (50) registered with the i...