ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,998, issued on July 1, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Artificial intelligence (AI)-based standardized uptake value (SUV) correction and variation assessment for positron emission tomography (PET)" was invented by Andreas Georg Goedicke (Aachen, Germany), Bin Zhang (Cleveland), Andriy Andreyev (Willoughby Hills, Ohio), Andre Frank Salomon (Aachen, Germany), Yanfei Mao (Highland Heights, Ohio), Chuanyong Bai (Solon, Ohio) and Zhiqiang Hu (Twinsburg, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions readable and executable by at least one electronic proc...