ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,614, issued on April 21, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.), Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.) and University of Notre Dame du Lac (South Bend, Ind.).

"Generating neural networks tailored to optimize specific medical image properties using novel loss functions" was invented by Obaidullah Rahman (South Bend, Ind.), Madhuri Mahendra Nagare (Karmala, India), Roman Melnyk (New Berlin, Wis.), Jie Tang (Merion Station, Pa.), Brian E Nett (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Charles Addison Bouman (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Ken Sauer (South Bend, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described that faci...