ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,111, issued on July 29, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Event-controlled view selection" was invented by Joachim Dieter Schmidt (Hamburg, Germany), Thomas Erik Amthor (Hamburg, Germany) and Tanja Nordhoff (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (100) of controlling a user interface (UI) provided by a remote operator workstation of a remote expert (RE) providing assistance to local operators (LO) of respective medical imaging devices (2) during a medical imaging examination includes: analyzing signal feeds (17, 18, 9) received by a feed aggregator (15) to detect events occurring in...