US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on June 16 for "Predicting a likelihood that an individual has one or more lesions" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,698, issued on June 16, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Predicting a likelihood that an individual has one or more lesions" was invented by Qizhong Lin (Shanghai) and Xianghui Bai (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for identifying the presence/absence of one or more lesions in a plurality of ultrasound images. The ultrasound images are processed to identify regions of interest in each image, each region of interest representing a part of the ultrasound image suspected to depict a lesion. Similar regions of interest are grouped together, and the groups of similar regions are then p...