ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,428, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Image-based device tracking" was invented by Niels Nijhof (Utrecht, Netherlands), Albert Louw Faber (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Petrus Cornelus Adrianus Vogels (Noord-Brabant, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to supporting an interventional procedure involving a device, such as a cardiovascular procedure. First and second image data acquired using different imaging apparatus, for example X-ray and ultrasound image data, are co-registered. A device is firstly identified in 2D X-ray images; corresponding ...