US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on May 12 for "Determining interventional device shape" (Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,384, issued on May 12, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Determining interventional device shape" was invented by Ayushi Sinha (Baltimore), Grzegorz Andrzej Toporek (Cambridge, Mass.), Molly Lara Flexman (Melrose, Mass.), Jochen Kruecker (Andover, Mass.) and Ashish Sattyavrat Panse (Burlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of providing a neural network for predicting a three-dimensional shape of an interventional device disposed within a vascular region, includes: training (S140) a neural network (140) to predict, from received X-ray image data (120) and received ...