ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,657, issued on May 12, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Assisting scapula positioning in chest X-ray imaging" was invented by Sven Kroenke-Hille (Hamburg, Germany), Daniel Bystrov (Hamburg, Germany), Martin Bergtholdt (Hamburg, Germany), Bernd Menser (Hauset, Belgium) and Julien Thomas Senegas (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to assisting scapula positioning in chest X-ray imaging. Provided is a system and related method for assisting subject positioning in chest X-ray imaging, wherein the system comprises an optical detection device (110), a user interfa...