ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,504, issued on April 7, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Automatic selection and display layout of medical images from clinical descriptions" was invented by Daphne Yu (Yardley, Pa.), Yamini Varadan (East Brunswick, N.J.) and Poikavila Ullaskrishnan (Lebanon, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatic selection and display layout of medical images are provided. User input comprising 1) a description of desired medical images and 2) viewing preferences for the desired medical images is received. One or more nodes of a clinical knowledge ontological database that match the descri...