US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on June 17 for "Cardiovascular assessment of patients suspected of having COVID-19" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,224, issued on June 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Cardiovascular assessment of patients suspected of having COVID-19" was invented by Puneet Sharma (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Saikiran Rapaka (Pennington, N.J.) and Ingo Schmuecking (Yardley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for assessing cardiovascular disease of a patient are provided. Patient data of the patient is received. The patient data may include one or more input medical images of a chest of the patient, results of an assessment of a lung disease performed based on the one or more input medical images, demographic a...