ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,242, issued on June 2, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for image processing" was invented by Xiang Liu (Shanghai) and Xiaojian Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system and method for image processing. The method may include obtaining an initial rendered image of a subject generated based on three-dimensional (3D) imaging data; obtaining one or more characteristic parameters corresponding to the 3D imaging data determined by performing a ray casting operation on the 3D imaging data; and generating a target rendered image of the s...