ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,971, issued on July 7, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Methods and systems for automated follow-up reading of medical image data" was invented by Halid Yerebakan (Carmel, Ind.), Gerardo Hermosillo Valadez (West Chester, Pa.), Yoshihisa Shinagawa (Downingtown, Pa.), Simon Allen-Raffl (West Chester, Pa.), Mahesh Ranganath (Malvern, Pa.) and Michael Rusitska (Utternreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least some example embodiments of methods and systems for generating display data of a medical image data set include identifying, for a target medical image series of a patient at a first point in...