ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,337, issued on May 12, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for adjusting the noise of an x-ray image, x-ray facility, computer program and electronically-readable data medium" was invented by Niko Koster (Neunkirchen am Brand, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for noise adjustment of an x-ray image recorded with an x-ray facility by an x-ray detector with image points is disclosed. In the method, image values are assigned, measured according to an incident x-ray dose, wherein the image values of the x-ray image include a first detector noise comp...