ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,559, issued on June 17, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"X-ray imaging system" was invented by Shailendra Kumar Bakki (Pune, India), Johannes Kopnick (Neumunster, Germany), Pavan Kumar Chivukula (Pune, India) and Eugene Hermann (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an X-ray imaging system (10). The X-ray imaging system comprises an optical camera (20), an X-ray imaging device (30), a processing unit (40), and an output unit (50). The optical camera is configured to acquire an optical image of a body part (BP) of a patient or an optical image of the head of...