ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,188, issued on March 24, was assigned to Abys Medical (La Rochelle, France).

"Method and device for generating a three-dimensional synthetic image from a three-dimensional input image" was invented by Arnaud Destainville (Saint-Xandre, France), Olivier Richart (Le Bois Plage en Re, France), Jean-Marie Housseau (La Rochelle, France), Abdelbasset Brahim (La Rochelle, France), Ismail Okieh Omar (La Rochelle, France) and Marwa Abderrahim (La Rochelle, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a 3D synthetic image from a 3D input image, includes receiving a 3D input image representing a part of a body of a subject, wh...