US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on May 13 for "System and method for automatic light arrangement for medical visualization" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,776, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"System and method for automatic light arrangement for medical visualization" was invented by Sandra Sudarsky (Bedminster, N.J.) and Kaloian Petkov (Lawrenceville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic light arrangement for medical visualization includes: providing a medical 3D image (D), providing spatial information about a region of interest (R) in this 3D-image (D) and spatial information about a virtual camera (C), determining a plurality of possible arrangements for light sources (L) by using depth information based on the 3D image (...