ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,984, issued on March 24, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"AI-powered histological fingerprinting" was invented by Mahmoud Mostapha (Princeton, N.J.), Dorin Comaniciu (Princeton, N.J.) and Mariappan S. Nadar (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for AI-powered histological fingerprinting in magnetic resonance imaging. MR signal data of an object is acquired using a high sensitivity scanner. Ground truth tissue microstructure data is acquired for the object. A forward model is learned using machine learning. The forward model is used to generate a dictionary or to train a mo...