ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,210, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Suppression of tagged elements in medical images" was invented by Rafael Wiemker (Kisdorf, Germany) and Amar Chandra Dhanantwari (Solon, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for reducing the appearance of tagged elements in a medical image. This is achieved by processing the medical image to generate a separate, suppression image that contains only the tagged elements. The medical image and the suppression image are then combined to reduce the appearance of the tagged elements in the medical image. This can be achieved through modif...