ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,840, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Guidance for positioning a patient in medical imaging" was invented by Heiner Matthias Brueck (Pinneberg, Germany), Stewart Matthew Young (Hamburg, Germany), Andre Goossen (Eldena, Germany), Sven Kroenke (Hamburg, Germany), Daniel Bystrov (Hamburg, Germany) and Jens Von Berg (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for positioning a subject in medical imaging, comprising: receiving a first image (20) of a region of interest (14, 16) of the subject (S10); determining first positioning data based on the firs...