ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,278, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Image guided intervention method and system" was invented by Otto Bernardus Stroosma (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Guillaume Leopold Theodorus Frederik Hautvast (Veldhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for guiding renal stone removal. The method includes steps for facilitating or guiding three stages of the intervention: renal access, stone removal, and a stone-free check. This is facilitated by a method which includes three stages: an intra-operative image guidance phase for obtaining CT-based imagery of the r...