US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Oct. 20 for "Method of performing lung nodule assessment" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,855, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method of performing lung nodule assessment" was invented by Philipp Hoelzer (Bubenreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments describes a method of performing lung nodule assessment, which method comprises the steps of obtaining a lung scan for a patient from an imaging modality; obtaining a blood panel for that patient from a blood analysis modality; and processing the lung scan and the blood panel in a classifier, which classifier is trained to assess a lung nodule based on the lung scan and the blood panel. The...