ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,804, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).
"Calibration of activity concentration uptake" was invented by Alexander Hans Vija (Evanston, Ill.) and Francesc Dassis Massanes Basi (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A framework for calibrating activity concentration uptake. The framework generates a pattern that represents a volume of interest. A three-dimensional (3D) phantom may be printed based on the pattern. Activity concentration uptake in the volume of interest may then be calibrated by using the 3D phantom."
The patent was filed on Sept. 1, 2023, under Application No. 18/459,4...