ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,161, issued on March 24, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for optimized iterative image reconstruction" was invented by Wenjing Cao (Shanghai), Haohua Sun (Shanghai) and Liyi Zhao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for image reconstruction. The systems and methods may obtain an initial image to be processed. The systems and methods may also generate a reconstructed image by performing a plurality of iteration steps on the initial image. At least one of the plurality of iteration steps may include a first optimizati...