ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,575, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Contour motion propagation across viewframe data" was invented by Huseyin Tek (Princeton, N.J.), Tiziano Passerini (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Ingo Schmuecking (Yardley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes propagation logic configured to obtain one or more contours for one or more directed viewframes within viewframe data. The one or more contours each having a set of tracking points. The viewframe data further includes intermediate viewframes among the one or more directed viewframes. The propagation logic is configured propagate the o...