ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,719, issued on June 16, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"System and method for splicing images" was invented by Yang Hu (Shanghai), Jie Niu (Shanghai), Liang Xu (Shanghai), Yecheng Han (Shanghai), Hanyu Wang (Shanghai), Yueyan Bian (Shanghai), Wanli Teng (Shanghai), Kai Cui (Shanghai) and Le Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for image splicing. The systems and methods may acquire a first image and a second image, determine a plurality of first feature points in a first region of the first image, determine a plurality of second fe...