ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,259, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Automatic rib fracture detection from unfolded scan images" was invented by Tanja Lossau (Hamburg, Germany), Christian Buerger (Hamburg, Germany), Cristian Lorenz (Hamburg, Germany), Heike Carolus (Ahrensburg, Germany) and Tobias Klinder (Uelzen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus of automatic fracture detection from imaging scans are disclosed. A innovative manifold view combing advantages of earlier approaches while avoiding the limitations of these approaches is coupled with a deep learning based fracture detection ...