ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,624, issued on March 24, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for providing an output data set, method for determining statistical information, apparatus, computer program and data medium" was invented by Michael Manhart (Furth, Germany), Alexander Preuhs (Erlangen, Germany) and Manuela Meier (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image processing that provides an output data set on the basis of an input data set relating to an examination subject. The method includes generating an initial intermediate data set group from a plurality of interme...