ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,648, issued on June 10, was assigned to SurgVision GmbH (Munich).
"Assisting medical procedures with luminescence images processed in limited informative regions identified in corresponding auxiliary images" was invented by Giovanni Valbusa (Colleretto Giacosa, Italy) and Adrian Taruttis (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solution is proposed for assisting a medical procedure. A corresponding method comprises acquiring a luminescence image (205F), based on a luminescence light, and an auxiliary image (205R), based on an auxiliary light different from this luminescence light, of a field of view (103); the field of view (103) con...