US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Aug. 5 for "Vessel registration using functional information" (German, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,562, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Vessel registration using functional information" was invented by Christian Haase (Hamburg, Germany), Martijn Anne Van Lavieren (Abcoude, Netherlands) and Michael Grass (Buchholz In der Nordheide, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for analyzing diagnostic image data are provided in which correspondence detection between a first diagnostic image and a second diagnostic image of a vessel of interest in a patients vasculature is performed on the basis of at least one functional parameter by matching the one or more value...