ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,115, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for generating a volume model of an object under examination, control device, x-ray apparatus, computer program, and electronically readable data medium" was invented by Alois Regensburger (Poxdorf, Germany) and Michael Manhart (Furth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for generating a volume model of an object under examination from a data set that includes first 2D projection images created in a first X-ray spectrum and second 2D projection images created in a second X-ray spectrum. The method includes: supplement...