ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,174, issued on June 2, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"Methods, systems and computer readable mediums for light field verification on a patient surface" was invented by Martin Sabel (Daettwil, Switzerland) and Michael Huber (Daettwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one example embodiment provides a method including obtaining a first image, the first image including a light field on a patient, the light field being generated by a treatment system; obtaining a treatment plan outline, the treatment plan outline including an area of the patient for a treatment; determ...