US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Dec. 2 for "Ease of image annotation via curved planar reformation" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,876, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Ease of image annotation via curved planar reformation" was invented by Faycal El Hanchi El Amrani (Paris), Bassam Abdallah (Versailles, France), Etienne Perot (Versailles, France), Caroline Clelia My-Linh Dam Hieu (Paris), Luc Caselles (Orsay, France) and Nicolas Gogin (Chatenay-Malabry, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems/techniques that facilitate improved ease of image annotation via curved planar reformation are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a first image depicting an original version of a tubular anatomical str...