ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,508, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for use in determining a radiation dose distribution in a medical volume" was invented by Klaus Engel (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for use in determining a radiation dose distribution in a medical volume, includes: receiving a volumetric dataset representing the medical volume; performing a selection process of a rendering process for generating a visualization of the volumetric dataset to select at least one sample point in the volumetric dataset on which to perform a ra...