ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,844, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus for scan direction and stiching sequence determination of a plurality of x-ray images" was invented by Mathias Schlueter (Ahrensburg, Germany), Edwin Jansen (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Jeroen Van Brussel (Son en Breugel, Netherlands) and Flip Van Den Berg (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus (10) for scan direction detection and stitching sequence determination of a plurality of X-ray images, comprising: an input unit (20); a processing unit (30); and an output unit (40). Th...