ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,044, issued on May 27, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Deep learning-based realtime reconstruction" was invented by Thomas Benkert (Neunkirchen am Brand, Germany), Marcel Dominik Nickel (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Simon Arberet (Princeton, N.J.), Boris Mailhe (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Mahmoud Mostapha (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For reconstruction, a machine-learned model is adapted to allow for reconstruction based on the repetitions available in some scanning. The reconstruction for one or more subsets is performed during the scanning. The machine-learned model is trained to reconstruc...