US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on March 17 for "Augmented-reality systems and methods for guided installation of medical devices" (Dutch, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,767, issued on March 17, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Augmented-reality systems and methods for guided installation of medical devices" was invented by Jan Martijn Krans (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Dietwig Jos Clement Lowet (Tongeren, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to augmented-reality systems and methods, and more specifically to systems and methods of providing automated support instructions to patients during medical device unboxing and installation via an augmented reality-enabled device. While adoption of remote patient monitoring and remote patient ...