ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,083, issued on May 26, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Assisting subject and/or implant positioning in medical imaging" was invented by Sven Kroenke-Hille (Hamburg, Germany), Jens Von Berg (Hamburg, Germany), Stewart Young (Hamburg, Germany), Daniel Bystrov (Hamburg, Germany), Heiner Matthias Brueck (Pinneberg, Germany) and Andre Goossen (Eldena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to prospective analysis of subject and/or implant positioning. Provided is a computer-implemented method for assisting positioning of a subject having an orthopedic implant in X-ray imagin...