US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 1 for "Interactive endoscopy for intraoperative virtual annotation in vats and minimally invasive surgery" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,216, issued on July 1, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Interactive endoscopy for intraoperative virtual annotation in vats and minimally invasive surgery" was invented by Paul Thienphrapa (Cambridge, Mass.), Torre Michelle Bydlon (Melrose, Mass.), Alvin Chen (Cambridge, Mass.), Prasad Vagdargi (Cambridge, Mass.) and William McNamara (Valhalla, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller (522) for live annotation of interventional imagery includes a memory (52220) that stores software instructions and a processor (52210) that executes the software instructions. When executed by the processor (52...