US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on June 3 for "Computer-implemented method for evaluating an angiographic computed tomography dataset, evaluation device, computer program and electronically readable data medium" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,097, issued on June 3, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for evaluating an angiographic computed tomography dataset, evaluation device, computer program and electronically readable data medium" was invented by Matthias Lichy (Nuremberg, Germany), Bernd Hofmann (Erlangen, Germany) and Bernhard Schmidt (Fuerth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one vascular tree supplying at least a part of the hollow organ in the computed tomography dataset is segmented, and a tree structure up to an order possible based on the blood vessel segmentation result is determined from a b...