ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,950, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Dynamic interventional three-dimensional model deformation" was invented by Torre Michelle Bydlon (Melrose, Mass.), Paul Thienphrapa (Cambridge, Mass.) and Alvin Chen (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for assisting navigation in an interventional procedure includes a memory that stores instructions and a processor (310) that executes the instructions. When executed by the processor (310), the instructions cause the controller to implement a process that includes obtaining (S410) a three-dimensional model generated p...