US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Feb. 10 for "Technique for rendering hidden structures with clip planes" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,236, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Technique for rendering hidden structures with clip planes" was invented by Sandra Sudarsky (Bedminster, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hidden structure of a volumetric data set is rendered in a medical image based on a volumetric data set received from a medical scanner. Reference information indicative of a parameter for a clip plane is received for rendering the hidden structure within the medical image. A differentiable rendering, DR, algorithm is applied on the received volumetric data set, which comprises determining a light accumulati...