ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,788, issued on April 14, was assigned to SHANDONG UNIVERSITY (Jinan, China).

"Method and system for fully automatically segmenting cerebral cortex surface based on graph network" was invented by Ying Wei (Jinan, China), Xinyu Liu (Jinan, China), Zhi Liu (Qingdao, China) and Yankun Cao (Qingdao, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for fully automatically segmenting a cerebral cortex surface based on a graph network, the method including: registering a cerebral magnetic resonance image to a standard template space; performing cerebral cortex surface reconstruction on the registered cerebral magnetic resonance im...