US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on June 2 for "Pulmonary tractography apparatuses and methods" (Dutch, German, British, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,170, issued on June 2, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Pulmonary tractography apparatuses and methods" was invented by Rafael Wiemker (Hamburg, Germany), Roberto Buizza (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Heike Carolus (Hamburg, Germany), Jaap Roger Haartsen (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Cornelis Petrus Hendriks (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Thomas Koehler (Hamburg, Germany), Olivier Pierre Nempont (Suresnes, France), Michael Polkey (London), Joerg Sabczynski (Hamburg, Germany), Alexander Schmidt-Richberg (Hamburg, Germany) and Nataly Wieberneit (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image process...