ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,015, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Technique for multi-modality medical image clinical workflow guidance" was invented by Ingo Schmuecking (Yardley, Pa.) and Puneet Sharma (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for multi-modality medical image clinical workflow guidance comprises a step of receiving a user input (306-4) in relation to a first medical image data set (306-2) acquired by means of a first medical imaging modality (304-A). By means of a clinical-concept-to-medical-image linking algorithm (314), the received user input (306-...