US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on June 10 for "Medical imaging systems, devices, and methods for visualizing a deployment state of an intracorporeal therapeutic device" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,351, issued on June 10, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Medical imaging systems, devices, and methods for visualizing a deployment state of an intracorporeal therapeutic device" was invented by Vipul Shrihari Pai Raikar (Somerville, Mass.), Maxim Fradkin (Maisons-Laffitte, France), Benoit Jean-Dominique Bertrand Maurice Mory (Medford, Mass.), Kunal Vaidya (Boston), Sibo Li (Waltham, Mass.) and Grzegorz Andrzej Toporek (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An end effector state estimation system for use in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) applications performs sensing and prediction algor...