ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,226, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Effective imaging examination handoffs between users within a radiology operations command center (ROCC) structure" was invented by Olga Starobinets (Newton, Mass.), Sandeep Madhukar Dalal (Winchester, Mass.), Ranjith Naveen Tellis (Tewksbury, Mass.) and Yuechen Qian (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer readable medium (26s) stores instructions executable by at least one electronic processor (14s) to perform a remote assistance method (100). The method includes: providing a remote assistance interface (28,...