ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,053, issued on July 1, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"3-D virtual endoscopy rendering" was invented by Rafael Wiemker (Kisdorf, Germany), Mukta Joshi (Best, Netherlands), Jorg Sabczynski (Norderstedt, Germany) and Tobias Klinder (Uelzen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional virtual endoscopy rendering of a lumen of a tubular structure is based on both non-spectral and spectral volumetric imaging data. The three-dimensional virtual endoscopy rendering includes a 2-D image of a lumen of the tubular structure from a viewpoint of a virtual camera of a virtual endoscope passing thr...