ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,969, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUIBIM S.L. (Valencia, Spain).

"Method and system for the automatic segmentation of white matter hyperintensities in magnetic resonance brain images" was invented by Ana Maria Jimenez Pastor (Valencia, Spain), Eduardo Camacho Ramos (Valencia, Spain), Fabio Garcia Castro (Valencia, Spain), Angel Alberich Bayarri (Valencia, Spain), Josep Puig Alcantara (Valencia, Spain), Carles Biarnes Duran (Valencia, Spain), Luis Marti Bonmati (Valencia, Spain) and Salvador Pedraza Gutierrez (Valencia, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and a system for the segmentati...