US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on May 13 for "Method for providing a collision model and system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,663, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for providing a collision model and system" was invented by Marcus Pfister (Bubenreuth, Germany) and Philipp Roser (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a collision model includes detecting an item of patient information that has an item of information on a spatial placement of an entry point of a medical object into an object undergoing examination. The item of patient information is registered with a movable medical device. The method also includes detecting an item of object information that has an item o...