US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Dec. 9 for "Dynamic layout optimization of annotation labels in volume rendering" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,953, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Dynamic layout optimization of annotation labels in volume rendering" was invented by Kaloian Petkov (Lawrenceville, N.J.) and Rishabh Shah (Wentworth Point, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layout of labels for annotating a rendered image is optimized. A rendered image is obtained, and locations of a plurality of regions of interest in the rendered image are determined. Semantic information associated with the plurality of regions of interest is obtained. Based on the semantic information and the locations of the plurality of regions of in...