ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,696, issued on June 30, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Methods and systems for classifying a medical image dataset" was invented by Awais Mansoor (Potomac, Md.), Ingo Schmuecking (Yardley, Pa.), Rikhiya Ghosh (Livingston, N.J.), Oladimeji Farri (Upper Saddle River, N.J.), Jianing Wang (Plainsboro, N.J.), Bogdan Georgescu (Princeton, N.J.), Sasa Grbic (Plainsboro, N.J.), Philipp Hoelzer (Tokyo) and Dorin Comaniciu (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are computer-implemented methods and systems for classifying a medical image data set. In particular, a method is provided comprising t...