ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,888, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ACER MEDICAL INC. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Data processing method and device" was invented by Chin-Han Tsai (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing method includes the following steps. First image files are obtained. The first image files are screened to generate second image files according to a predetermined condition. Each second image file is scanned to obtain the file messages of each second image file. An image of each second image file is analyzed to obtain a bone mineral density reference value corresponding to each image. A T-score reference value...