US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on May 19 for "Method and device for automatically determining spine deformation from an image" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,395, issued on May 19, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and device for automatically determining spine deformation from an image" was invented by Andreas Fieselmann (Erlangen, Germany) and Zhigang Peng (Ambler, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically determining spine deformation from an image showing a number of vertebrae of the spine, comprises: detecting center points of the number of vertebrae shown in the image; constructing a center line based on the center points; computing a local tilt at points along the center line; determining positive and negative tilt-maxima of th...