ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,072, issued on June 23, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for mapping a scan protocol for scanning a patient to a standardized scan protocol" was invented by Anuj Agarwal (Tinsukia, India) and Ezhirko S.A (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method comprises receiving a scan protocol, wherein the scan protocol comprises protocol information pertaining to a set of imaging parameters for imaging a patient; extracting at least one textual protocol parameter from the received scan protocol; generating a combined dataset based on the extracted text...