ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,087, issued on June 17, was assigned to D3D Technologies Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).
"Interactive 3D cursor" was invented by Kathleen M. Douglas (Winter Park, Fla.), Robert E. Douglas (Winter Park, Fla.) and David Byron Douglas (Winter Park, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interactive 3D cursor facilitates selection and manipulation of a three-dimensional volume from a three-dimensional image. The selected volume image may be transparency-adjusted and filtered to remove selected tissues from view. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of tissues in a selected volume may be performed. Location indicators, annotations, and registratio...