ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,973, issued on March 18, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for providing an output data set" was invented by Boris Stowasser (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing an output data set as a function of an input data set includes applying an algorithm for reducing image noise to the input data set or an intermediate data set determined as a function of the input data set to determine a noise-reduced signal data set. The method includes determining a noise data set as difference between the input data set or the intermediate data set and the signa...