ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,558, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Medical image acquisition unit assistance apparatus" was invented by Gereon Vogtmeier (Aachen, Germany), Mark Thomas Johnson (Arendonk, Belgium) and Steffen Weiss (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a medical image acquisition unit assistance apparatus (10), the apparatus comprising: -at least one sensor (20); and -a processing unit (30); wherein one or more sensors of the at least one sensor is configured to acquire sensor data of a person observing a patient undergoing a medical scan by a medical...