ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,805, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for generating dual-energy images from a single-energy imaging system based on anatomical segmentation" was invented by Rajesh Langoju (Karnataka, India), Utkarsh Agrawal (Karnataka, India), Bipul Das (Karnataka, India), Risa Shigemasa (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Imai (Tokyo), Kok Yen Tham (Tokyo) and Yuri Teraoka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for transforming images from one energy level to another. In an example, a method includes obtaining an image at a first energy level, identifying a contrast...