US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on March 11 for "Endotracheal tube size selection and insertion depth estimation using statistical shape modelling and virtual fitting" (Dutch, German, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,821, issued on March 11, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Endotracheal tube size selection and insertion depth estimation using statistical shape modelling and virtual fitting" was invented by Cornelis Petrus Hendriks (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Kiran Hamilton J. Dellimore (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Joerg Sabczynski (Hamburg, Germany), Thomas Koehler (Hamburg, Germany), Jaap Roger Haartsen (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Rafael Wiemker (Hamburg, Germany) and Michael Polkey (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intubation assistance device includes an electronic controller configured to: generate a patie...