ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,494, issued on July 28, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Method and system for geometric correction based on image tracking" was invented by Haihua Zhou (Shanghai), Kai Cui (Shanghai), Jing Yan (Shanghai) and Jian Zhong (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for geometric correction based on image tracking, the method including: obtaining a plurality of projection images of a geometric model, each of the projection images including a projection marker corresponding to an original marker in the geometric model; obtaining an initial correspondence between the original markers ...