ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,360, issued on April 22, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Automated system for error checking injection parameters during imaging exams" was invented by Olga Starobinets (Newton, Mass.), Sandeep Madhukar Dalal (Winchester, Mass.), Ranjith Naveen Tellis (Tewksbury, Mass.), Hareesh Chamarthi (Cambridge, Mass.), Yuchen Qian (Lexington, Mass.) and Vijay Parthasarathy (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for use with a medical imaging device (2) operative in conjunction with a contrast injector (11) to perform a contrast enhanced medical imaging procedure. The apparatus includes: ...