US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Feb. 24 for "Multi-modal foundational models for medical images using modality-specific and cross-modality expert subnetworks" (German, Romanian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,260, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Multi-modal foundational models for medical images using modality-specific and cross-modality expert subnetworks" was invented by Alexandru Constantin Serban (Constanta, Romania), Florin-Cristian Ghesu (Baiersdorf, Germany), Dominik Neumann (Erlangen, Germany), Venkatesh Narasimha Murthy (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Bogdan Georgescu (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing a medical imaging analysis task using a machine learning based model (e.g., a foundational model) are provided. One or more input medical im...