ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,050, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and device for generating a vessel imaging sequence" was invented by Venkatesh Narasimha Murthy (Hillsborough, N.J.), Anamaria Vizitiu (Covasna, Romania), Mehmet Akif Gulsun (Princeton, N.J.), Sebastien Piat (Lawrence Township, N.J.) and Florin-Cristian Ghesu (Baiersdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vessel imaging sequence including plurality of vessel imaging frames and a corresponding ECG signal are generated by encoding, using a first encoder, an input vessel imaging sequence to generate a plurality of vessel latent space vec...