US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on May 26 for "Pixelwise positional embeddings for medical images in vision transformers" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,848, issued on May 26, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Pixelwise positional embeddings for medical images in vision transformers" was invented by Gengyan Zhao (Plainsboro, N.J.), Badhan Kumar Das (Erlangen, Germany), Eli Gibson (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Dorin Comaniciu (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing a medical imaging analysis task based on pixelwise positionally encoded features are provided. One or more input medical images are received. One or more pixelwise positional embedding images are generated for the one or more input medical images using a spatia...