US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Feb. 10 for "Provision of thermal conductivity data relating to an anatomical structure for a cryoablation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,016, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Provision of thermal conductivity data relating to an anatomical structure for a cryoablation" was invented by Bernd Hofmann (Erlangen, Germany), Matthias Lichy (Nuremberg, Germany) and Bernhard Schmidt (Fuerth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing thermal conductivity data relating to an anatomical structure, comprises: receiving first spectral computed tomography data relating to the anatomical structure; calculating a fat map of the anatomical structure and a water map of the anatomical structure based on the first spect...