US Patent Issued to TECAN TRADING on March 17 for "Image registration with application in tissue treatment" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,604, issued on March 17, was assigned to TECAN TRADING AG (Mannedorf, Switzerland).

"Image registration with application in tissue treatment" was invented by Volfgang Vilaj (Uetikon am See, Switzerland) and Alexander Kaser (Puch, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments are directed to image registration. A rotation angle is determined and subsequently a translation vector. The rotation angle and translation vector together defining an alignment transformation between a first image and a second image. Determining the rotation angle may include iterating over multiple potential rotation angles, and determining alig...