ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,496, issued on March 3, was assigned to Optellum Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Method and apparatus for displaying and analyzing medical scan images" was invented by David Arrowsmith (Oxford, Great Britain), Quentin Chometon (Oxford, Great Britain) and Timor Kadir (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display system for a computer aided lung cancer diagnosis system is described. The system comprises: a user interface which comprises: a patient information display wherein the patient information comprises one or more of: patient name, patient age, patient sex, smoking history, disease history, and current patient st...