ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,464, issued on June 24, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Rendering of two dimensional data sets" was invented by Benoit Jean-Dominique Bertrand Maurice Mory (Medford, Mass.), Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon (Andover, Mass.), Emmanuel Moce Serge Attia (Paris), Jean-Michel Rouet (Paris) and Maxim Fradkin (Maisons-Laffitte, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, two dimensional (2D) datasets, such as images, may be transformed into three dimensional (3D) datasets (e.g., volumes). The values and material properties of voxels of the 3D dataset may be based, at least in part, on values o...