US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Oct. 14 for "Automatic analysis of 2D medical image data with an additional object" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,047, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Automatic analysis of 2D medical image data with an additional object" was invented by Christian Huemmer (Lichtenfels, Germany), Sven-Martin Sutter (Herzogenaurach, Germany) and Sailesh Conjeti (Pinneberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically analysing 2D medical image data, including an additional object comprises acquiring the 2D medical image data from an examination portion of a patient using a first modality; acquiring additional image data from the examination portion using a different modality; and performing an ...