ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,441, issued on March 17, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING INTELLIGENCE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for image reconstruction" was invented by Yang Zhang (Shanghai), Yang Lyu (Shanghai) and Chen Xi (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system for image reconstruction. The system may obtain an initial image of a subject. The initial image may be generated based on scan data of the subject that is collected by an imaging device. The system may also generate a gradient image associated with the initial image. The system may further generate a target image of the subject by applyin...