ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,218, issued on March 24, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Motion estimation with anatomical integrity" was invented by Xiao Chen (Lexington, Mass.), Kun Han (Irvine, Calif.), Zhang Chen (Brookline, Mass.), Yikang Liu (Cambridge, Mass.), Shanhui Sun (Lexington, Mass.) and Terrence Chen (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The motion estimation of an anatomical structure may be performed using a machine-learned (ML) model trained based on medical training images of the anatomical structure and corresponding segmentation masks for the anatomical structure. During the training of the...