ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,953, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"System and method for visualizing placement of a medical tube or line" was invented by Pal Tegzes (Budapest, Hungary), Zita Herczeg (Szeged, Hungary), Tao Tan (Nuenen, Netherlands), Balazs Peter Cziria (Budapest, Hungary), Alec Joseph Baenen (Hartland, Wis.), Gireesha Chintharnani Rao (Pewaukee, Wis.), Lehel Ferenczi (Budapest, Hungary), Gopal Biligeri Avinash (Concord, Calif.), Zoltan Kiss (Budapest, Hungary), Hongxu Yang (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Beth Ann Heckel (Waukesha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing system is provid...