US Patent Issued to CLARIPI on Aug. 25 for "Apparatus and method for vertebral body recognition in medical images" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,597, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CLARIPI INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for vertebral body recognition in medical images" was invented by Jong Hyo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Chang Won Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Je Myoung Lee (Goyang-si, South Korea) and Tae Jin Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an apparatus of identifying a vertebral body from a medical image, and the apparatus includes a vertebral bone identification module configured to identify the vertebral body based on a multi-slice medical image provided from an outside, in which the vertebral iden...