ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,151, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Patient monitoring during a scan" was invented by Julien Thomas Senegas (Hamburg, Germany), Lena Christina Frerking (Hamburg, Germany) and Holger Schmitt (Luetjensee, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system is for capturing images of a patient during a medical scan. A set of one or more cameras captures images of the patient such that, after applying distortion and perspective correction steps, pixel rows correspond to locations along an axis parallel to the direction of patient support movement and pixel columns correspond to...