ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,064, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Natural language based image comparison system" was invented by Erik Normann Steen (Horten, Norway), Svein Arne Aase (Trondheim, Norway), Jurica Sprem (Oslo, Norway), Sten Roar Snare (Horten, Norway) and Andreas Heimdal (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current disclosure provides systems and methods for an automated image comparison system that generates natural language descriptions of images. In an example, the image comparison system is configured to carry out a method that includes acquiring a current image of a patient during a...