ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,005, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Methods and systems for tool tracking" was invented by Shakith Devinda Fernando (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Karl Catharina Van Bree (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for determining an orientation of a tool for performing a medical intervention on a subject. The method includes obtaining image data for an image of a surface of, or over, a subject, a tool adjacent the surface and a tool shadow on the surface, the tool shadow resulting from light incident on the tool generated by way of at le...