ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,587, issued on June 30, was assigned to PulseMedica Corp. (Edmonton, Canada).

"Automatic annotation of condition features in medical images" was invented by Christopher Ceroici (Edmonton, Canada) and Nir Katchinskiy (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Features of a medical condition can be automatically annotated in medical images using a classification model that has been trained to classify images as having the medical condition or not. The automatically annotated features may be further processed to generate a treatment plan for treating the medical condition, for example with a laser, ultrasound, or other treatment m...