ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,674, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Combining model outputs into a combined model output" was invented by Irina Fedulova (Moscow), Fedor Mushenok (Moscow) and Hans-Aloys Wischmann (Henstedt-Ulzburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a prediction system (100) for applying multiple trained models to an input instance, for example, for detection or segmentation of objects in a medical image. The multiple trained models form a combined model. A trained model determines a model output for an input instance by determining a representation of the input i...