ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,238, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Providing an indication regarding the affliction of a patient with an infectious respiratory disease based on magnetic resonance imaging data" was invented by Mario Zeller (Erlangen, Germany), David Grodzki (Erlangen, Germany) and Thomas Benkert (Neunkirchen Am Brand, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for providing output data comprising an indication regarding the affliction of a patient with an infectious respiratory disease, the method comprises receiving magnetic resonance imaging data, the magnetic resonance ...