US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 8 for "Adaptive collimation for interventional x-ray" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,089, issued on July 8, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Adaptive collimation for interventional x-ray" was invented by Molly Lara Flexman (Melrose, Mass.), Jochen Kruecker (Andover, Mass.), Ashish Sattyavrat Panse (Burlington, Mass.) and Grzegorz Andrzej Toporek (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (SYS) and related method for facilitating collimator adjustment in X-ray imaging or a radiation therapy delivery. The system comprises an input interface (IN) for receiving input data including i) an input image and/or ii) user input data including a partial collimator setting for a co...