ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,075, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for parametrizing a function for evaluating a medical image dataset" was invented by Alexander Muehlberg (Nuremberg, Germany), Oliver Taubmann (Weilersbach, Germany), Alexander Katzmann (Fuerth, Germany), Felix Denzinger (Nuremberg, Germany), Felix Lades (Erlangen, Germany), Rainer Kaergel (Stegaurach, Germany), Felix Durlak (Langenzenn, Germany) and Michael Suehling (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system are for parametrizing a function including a processing algorithm ...