US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on April 29 for "Imaging with asymmetrical contrast amplification" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,310, issued on April 29, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Imaging with asymmetrical contrast amplification" was invented by Boris Stowasser (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an imaging method an image is generated by an imaging device that includes a vessel structure of an object to be imaged and/or a device arranged in the object. A local asymmetrical contrast amplification algorithm is applied to the image to generate a filtered image that is displayed by a display device."

The patent was filed on Jan. 12, 2022, under Application No. 17/573,727.

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