US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Sept. 2 for "Provision of at least one procedure parameter" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,170, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Provision of at least one procedure parameter" was invented by Annette Birkhold (Stuttgart, Germany) and Philipp Roser (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing at least one procedure parameter includes acquiring at least one intraprocedural projection map that maps a hollow organ of an examination object with at least one medical object positioned in the hollow organ. A trained function is applied to the at least one intraprocedural projection map as input data. At least one parameter of the trained function is adjus...