US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Nov. 18 for "Method and apparatus for annotating a portion of medical imaging data with one or more words" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,990, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for annotating a portion of medical imaging data with one or more words" was invented by Yoshihisa Shinagawa (Downingtown, Pa.), Halid Yerebakan (Carmel, Ind.), Gerardo Hermosillo Valadez (West Chester, Pa.), Simon Allen-Raffl (West Chester, Pa.), Mahesh Ranganath (Malvern, Pa.) and Michael Rusitska (Forchheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a method and apparatus for annotating a first portion of medical imaging data with one or more words corresponding to a respective one or more features represente...