ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,626, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CARL ZEISS MEDITEC AG (Jena, Germany).

"Method for identifying a region of a tumour" was invented by Christian Albrecht (Aalen, Germany) and Marco Wilzbach (Aalen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for identifying a region (21) of a tumour (23) in a tissue-field image (27), which image shows a tissue region (25) having a tumour (23) and has been obtained by means of light reflected or emitted by the tissue region (25). In the method, the region (21) of the tumour (23) in the tissue-field image (27) is identified on the basis of a charact...