ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,533, issued on July 28, was assigned to Mint Labs Inc. (Duxbury, Mass.).

"Tumor segmentation tool" was invented by Santiago Puch Giner (Barcelona, Spain), Vesna Prchkovska (Barcelona, Spain) and Paulo Reis Rodrigues (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of tumor segmentation are receiving data having dimensions of a first size and a first kernel size. A residual volume is produced from the input volume. A first, second, and third intermediate volume are produced by from convolving a first, second, and third dimension volume of the residual volume to 1. A first global volume is produced from sums of the ...