US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on April 29 for "Image retrieval" (Indiana, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,609, issued on April 29, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Image retrieval" was invented by Halid Yerebakan (Carmel, Ind.), Yoshihisa Shinagawa (Downingtown, Pa.) and Anna Jerebko (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for image retrieval. An image descriptor of a query image indicating a medical abnormality and non-image patient data may be received. For each of a plurality of candidate images stored in a database, an image descriptor of the candidate image and data about a medical abnormality known to be indicated by the candidate image may further be received. A similarity...