ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,730, issued on July 8, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany) and New York University (New York).

"Determining characteristics of muscle structures using artificial neural network" was invented by Michael Schwier (Hamburg, Germany), Bernhard Geiger (Cranbury, N.J.), Sasa Grbic (Plainsboro, N.J.), Esther Raithel (Dormitz, Germany), Dana Lin (New York) and Guillaume Chabin (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques of determining a quantification of at least one characteristic of a muscle structure comprising at least one muscle and at least one tendon are disclosed. The quantification of the at least one cha...