US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Dec. 2 for "Method of operating a medical imaging system, method of simulating a partial deformation of a three-dimensional model of an organ, medical imaging system and software program product" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,457, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of operating a medical imaging system, method of simulating a partial deformation of a three-dimensional model of an organ, medical imaging system and software program product" was invented by Lorena Krames (Koblenz, Germany) and Per Suppa (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating a partial deformation of an organ in which point clouds are calculated from intraoperative image data captured before and after a partial deformation motion of an organ. Geometric feature vectors are assigned to unmoving points, whose position does not change ...