ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,189, issued on March 18, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Position feed back indicator for medical imaging" was invented by Sascha Krueger (Hamburg, Germany), Christian Stehning (Hamburg, Germany) and Peter Mazurkewitz (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides for a medical instrument (100, 300, 400, 500, 600) comprising a camera system (102, 102', 102") for imaging a portion (418) of a subject (108) reposing on a subject support (106). The medical instrument further comprises a display system (104) for rendering a position feedback indicator (130, 900). The display sy...