ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,476, issued on May 5, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Cardiac image workflow interpretation time prediction" was invented by Ali Sadeghi (Melrose, Mass.), Lucas de Melo Oliveira (Wilmington, Mass.), Deyu Sun (Chicago), Hua Xie (Cambridge, Mass.), Claudia Errico (Medford, Mass.) and Jochen Kruecker (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method predicts an interpretation time for a medical image examination of a subject comprising one or more medical images. A plurality of data inputs is obtained, where the data inputs are associated with the medical image examination or the subject of the me...