US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Dec. 9 for "Positioning an object with respect to an X-ray detector" (German, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,944, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Positioning an object with respect to an X-ray detector" was invented by Sven Kroenke (Hamburg, Germany), Martin Bergtholdt (Hamburg, Germany), Daniel Bystrov (Hamburg, Germany), Bernd Menser (Hauset, Belgium), Thomas Netsch (Hamburg, Germany) and Julien Thomas Senegas (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray imaging system (100) includes an X-ray source (110), an X-ray detector (120), a depth camera (130), and a processor (140). The processor (140) receives depth camera image data from the depth camera, projects the depth camer...