ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,497, issued on June 2, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Fluoroscopic positioning guidance" was invented by Jens Von Berg (Hamburg, Germany), Heiner Matthias Brueck (Poinneberg, Germany), Sven Kroenke-Hille (Hamburg, Germany), Daniel Bystrov (Hamburg, Germany), Andre Goossen (Eldena, Germany), Tim Philipp Harder (Ahrensburg, Germany) and Stewart Matthew Young (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to patient positioning. In order to facilitate patient positioning, an apparatus is provided that comprises an input unit, a processing unit, and an output unit. The i...