ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,751, issued on May 12, was assigned to metamorphosis GmbH (Altenbeken, Germany).

"Determining relative 3D positions and orientations between objects in 2D medical images" was invented by Arno Blau (Staufen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for processing X-ray images, wherein the methods are implemented as a software program product executable on a processing unit of the systems. Generally, an X-ray image is received by the system, the X-ray image being a projection image of a first object and a second object. The first and second objects are classified, and a respective 3D model of the objects i...