ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,674, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and control unit for controlling a medical imaging installation" was invented by Oliver Taubmann (Weilersbach, Germany) and Michael Suehling (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for controlling a medical imaging installation, comprises: capturing patient-specific indication data via an interface unit; capturing at least one user-specific and/or facility-specific preference parameter via an interface unit; automatically determining, via an arithmetic unit, a control data record on the basis of the in...