ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,929, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Quantivly Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Identifying medical imaging protocols based on radiology data and metadata" was invented by Benoit Scherrer (Somerville, Mass.), Robert D. MacDougall (La Mesa, Calif.) and Dimitri Falco (Dexter, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method uses a plurality of input examination data sets, created by performing a plurality of imaging examinations of at least one patient on at least one scanner, to learn a model of imaging protocols. The model may learn imaging protocols by capturing common features across the plurality of input examinatio...