US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on April 8 for "Method and systems for predicting a stream of virtual topograms" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,441, issued on April 8, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and systems for predicting a stream of virtual topograms" was invented by Brian Teixeira (Princeton, N.J.), Vivek Singh (Princeton, N.J.), Ankur Kapoor (Plainsboro, N.J.), Yao-jen Chang (Princeton, N.J.) and Birgi Tamersoy (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stream of virtual topograms, in particular live virtual topograms, is predicted. Sets of surface data of an outer surface of a subject are continuously received. Based on each received set of surface data a (live) virtual topogram is continuously generated by a trained ma...