US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Sept. 30 for "Imaging-based sizing optimization of endotracheal tube for mechanical ventilation" (Dutch, German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,277, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Imaging-based sizing optimization of endotracheal tube for mechanical ventilation" was invented by Thomas Koehler (Hamburg, Germany), Rafael Wiemker (Hamburg, Germany), Cornelis Petrus Hendriks (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Joerg Sabczynski (Hamburg, Germany), Kiran Hamilton J. Dellimore (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Michael Polkey (Monroeville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intubation assistance device includes an electronic controller configured to: identify, from one or more images of a patient, information about the patient including ...