ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,531, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for the automatic classification of emitter structures, apparatus for carrying out the method, machine-readable program code and storage medium" was invented by Andreas Selmaier (Erlangen, Germany), Benjamin Samuel Lutz (Munich) and Jens Fuerst (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one example embodiment relates to an apparatus, machine-readable program code, a storage medium and computer-implemented method for the automatic classification of emitter structures embodied to emit electrons for th...