ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,358, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Seoul National University Hospital (Seoul, South Korea).

"Sleep apnea diagnostic auxiliary system using simple skull x-ray image and method for providing diagnostic auxiliary information using same" was invented by Han-Gil Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Tackeun Kim (Seongnam-Si, South Korea) and Chang-Ho Yun (Seongnam-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a sleep apnea diagnostic auxiliary system using a simple skull x-ray image, the system comprising: an input unit for receiving a simple skull x-ray image of a target patient; a prediction unit for analyzi...