US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Nov. 18 for "Technique for real-time rendering of medical images using virtual spherical light sources" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,633, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Technique for real-time rendering of medical images using virtual spherical light sources" was invented by Kaloian Petkov (Lawrenceville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For real-time rendering of medical images from volumetric data obtained from a medical scanner, one or more optical properties of the received volumetric data are determined. A light volume associated to a spherical light source is constructed. The light volume comprises a series of consecutive spherical slices through which light propagates while determining a fraction of the ...