ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,674, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for providing an edited medical image obtained by applying a tool selected based on an anatomical region" was invented by Volker Schaller (Uttenreuth, Germany) and Bjorn Nolte (Fuerth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for providing an edited medical image, comprises: receiving a medical image depicting an examination region of a patient; receiving patient information for the patient; determining an anatomical region based on the medical image and the patient information, wherein the examination region incl...