ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,649, issued on June 10, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Determining a tissue type of a tissue of an animal or human individual" was invented by Thomas Engel (Aalen, Germany), Alexander Michael Gigler (Untermeitingen, Germany), Clemens Otte (Munich), Remigiusz Pastusiak (Munich), Tobias Paust (Leipheim, Germany), Elfriede Simon (Munich), Evamaria Stutz (Munich) and Stefanie Vogl (Konzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for determining a tissue type of a tissue of an animal or human individual, in which method: electromagnetic radiation (26) emitted by a tissue sa...