ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,959, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Global tractography based on machine learning" was invented by Mahmoud Mostapha (Princeton, N.J.), Boris Mailhe (Plainsboro, N.J.), Dorin Comaniciu (Princeton, N.J.), Nirmal Janardhanan (Monmouth Junction, N.J.), Simon Arberet (Princeton, N.J.), Hongki Lim (Highland Park, N.J.) and Mariappan S. Nadar (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more tractograms of a global tractography of a tissue of interest are determined. At least one instance of diffusion magnetic resonance imaging data of the tissue of interest is obtained. A traine...