US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on May 12 for "Medical imaging method with guidance" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,597, issued on May 12, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Medical imaging method with guidance" was invented by Gereon Vogtmeier (Aachen, Germany) and Steffen Weiss (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical imaging system is operated by determining a positioning rule indicating, for a region of interest, a target position, wherein a deviation between an actual position and the target position can affect imaging performance; obtaining measurement data of the region of interest, from which the actual position of the region of interest is derivable; determining a current deviation between...