ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,689, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Determining needle position" was invented by Yanhua Shen (Shenyang, China), Ling Fu (Shenyang, China), Yue Ma (Shenyang, China), Di Zhang (Shenyang, China), Lan Zhang (Shenyang, China) and Yue Zheng (Shenyang, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method (100) is described. The method comprises receiving (102) data corresponding to a plurality of radiographic imaging slices of a body. The method further comprises determining (104) a position of a needle inserted in the body. The determination is based on combining informatio...