US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Feb. 10 for "Virtual fiducial markings for automated planning in medical imaging" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,151, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Virtual fiducial markings for automated planning in medical imaging" was invented by Manikanda Krishnan V (Bangalore, India), Srinivasa Rao Kundeti (Movva, India) and Sumit Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a medical system (100, 300, 500, 600) comprising: a medical imaging system (102, 302) configured to acquire medical imaging data (136) descriptive of a subject (110); a camera system (114) configured to acquire a subject image (138) of the subject; a memory (126) storing machine executable instructi...