ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,658, issued on May 12, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Actuation method for X-ray device and X-ray device" was invented by Marcus Pfister (Bubenreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatic actuation of an X-ray device includes acquiring at least one X-ray image of a body containing at least two objects and/or an object divisible into at least two object sections, segmenting and classify the at least two objects and/or the at least two object sections of the object, and determining an immediately upcoming or current workflow step of the intervention. Information relating to objects...