US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Dec. 2 for "Computer-implemented method for determining a subtraction image, image recording facility, computer program, and electronically readable data carrier" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,429, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for determining a subtraction image, image recording facility, computer program, and electronically readable data carrier" was invented by Michael Manhart (Furth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for determining a subtraction image from a feature image and a plurality of mask images of an imaging area of an examination object is provided. A combination of the plurality of mask images weighted by mask weights is subtracted from the feature image to determine the subtraction image. The mas...