US Patent Issued to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY on Feb. 17 for "Intraluminal treatment guidance prior extraluminal imaging, intraluminal data, and coregistration" (Dutch, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,294, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY Corp. (San Diego).

"Intraluminal treatment guidance prior extraluminal imaging, intraluminal data, and coregistration" was invented by Rebecca Ann Jenkins (San Diego), Ryan Michael Sotak (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Ehud Nachtomy (Herzliya, Israel), Emily Brown (Amsterdam) and Ronald Helmstrijd (Best, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A co-registration system includes a processor circuit that displays one or more intravascular images corresponding to locations along a blood vessel and associated bookmarks within a corresponding x-ray image. The processor circ...