ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,740, issued on March 17, was assigned to Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"System, method, and computer program product for determining a needle injection site" was invented by John Michael Galeotti (Pittsburgh) and Edward Chen (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system, method, and computer program product for determining a needle injection site. The method includes segmenting, with at least one computing device, an image of a sequence of images into at least one object based on a machine-learning model configured to estimate its uncertainty for each segmentation, generating, with the at least one compu...