ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,578, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to OTTO-VON-GUERICKE-UNIVERSITAET MAGDEBURG (Magdeburg, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for determining an X-ray image dataset" was invented by Thomas Hoffmann (Magdeburg, Germany), Tim Pfeiffer (Magdeburg, Germany), Robert Frysch (Welsleben, Germany), Andre Mewes (Magdeburg, Germany), Benjamin Fritsch (Magdeburg, Germany) and Georg Rose (Magdeburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for determining an X-ray image dataset of a target region of an object to be examined, wherein projection images showing the target region are captured by an X-ray detector and the X-ray image dataset is re...