US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on June 3 for "Machine learning-assisted computed tomography workflow" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,090, issued on June 3, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Machine learning-assisted computed tomography workflow" was invented by Bernhard Schmidt (Furth, Germany) and Katharine Grant (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include acquisition of a two-dimensional radiograph of a patient, input of the radiograph to a trained machine learning model to generate a classification, performance of a computed tomography scan of the patient based on the two-dimensional radiograph if the classification indicates that the patient does not have a first condition, and determination to modif...