US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on March 24 for "Lesion linking using adaptive search and a system for implementing the same" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,187, issued on March 24, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Lesion linking using adaptive search and a system for implementing the same" was invented by Ahmed Soliman (Farragut, Tenn.), Vijay Shah (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Bruce Spottiswoode (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system for linking images of a lesion taken over different periods of time comprising an imaging device that is operative to image one or more lesions present in a living being. The imaging device takes a first image at a first point in time T1 and a second image at a second point in time T2. A m...