US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on March 31 for "Displacement estimation of interventional devices" (Dutch, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,967, issued on March 31, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Displacement estimation of interventional devices" was invented by Frederik Jan De Bruijn (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Jinhui Qian (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Harold Agnes Wilhelmus Schmeitz (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Bart Jacob Bakker (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Ruud Johannes Gerardus Van Sloun (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Gerhardus Wilhelmus Lucassen (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Vincent Maurice Andre Auvray (Meudon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for determining the movement of an interventional device inside a lumen. The ...