ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,380, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Combining generalist and specialist medical AI for optimizing performance" was invented by Awais Mansoor (Potomac, Md.), Bogdan Georgescu (Princeton, N.J.), Florin-Cristian Ghesu (Baiersdorf, Germany), Ingo Schmuecking (Yardley, Pa.), Pranjal Sahu (Morrisville, Pa.) and Sasa Grbic (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods performing a medical analysis task using a GMAI (generalist medical artificial intelligence) system and an SMAI (specialist medical artificial intelligence) system are provided. Patient data is receive...