ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,394, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for providing a label of a body part on an x-ray image" was invented by Clemens Joerger (Forchheim, Germany), Sven-Martin Sutter (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Jing Tai Cao (Shanghai) and Xi Shuai Peng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments relates to a computer-implemented a method for providing a label of a body part on an X-ray image, comprising receiving input data, wherein the input data is based on a red, green and blue (RGB) image of the body part, a depth image of the body part and an X-ray image of the bo...