ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,649, issued on June 23, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Detecting artifacts in medical images" was invented by Johannes Pauli (Uttenreuth, Germany), Sebastian Probst (Erlangen, Germany), Marie Mecking (Erlangen, Germany), Mirko Appel (Nuremberg, Germany), Matthias Heller (Spardorf, Germany) and Johan Tondeur (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for detecting artefacts in a medical image comprises obtaining input data associated with acquiring at least one image by a medical imaging system, applying a machine-learning model to the input data, whereby information about ...