ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,699, issued on June 16, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Method and system for determining blood vessel information in an image" was invented by Yuxiang Guo (Shanghai) and Shaofeng Yuan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining blood vessel information in an image may include acquiring image data including a target blood vessel. The method may also include determining a first portion of a plurality of branches of the target blood vessel from the image data based on the one or more trained neural network models and determining a second portion of the plurality of branches...