ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,316, issued on June 30, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Providing scan progress indications during medical imaging" was invented by Rithesh Sreenivasan (Bengaluru, India), Krishnamoorthy Palanisamy (Bangalore, India), Sudipta Chaudhury (Balgalore, India), Jaap Knoester (Utrecht, Netherlands), Gereon Vogtmeier (Aachen, Germany) and Steffen Weiss (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is a need for techniques to avoid or reduce motion artifacts in medical images. According to the invention, there is provided control circuitry for a medical imaging system. The control circuitry is conf...