US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on March 18 for "Time and position based binning of image data" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,535, issued on March 18, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Time and position based binning of image data" was invented by Inki Hong (Knoxville, Tenn.), Ziad Burbar (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Paul Schleyer (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include association of imaging event data to one of a plurality of bins based on a time associated with the imaging event data, determination that the time periods of a first bin and the time periods of a second bin are adjacent-in-time, determination of whether a spatial characteristic of the imaging event data of the first bin is wi...