US Patent Issued to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence on March 31 for "Motion detection associated with a body part" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,982, issued on March 31, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Motion detection associated with a body part" was invented by Zhongpai Gao (Rowley, Mass.), Abhishek Sharma (Boston), Meng Zheng (Cambridge, Mass.), Benjamin Planche (Briarwood, N.Y.), Ziyan Wu (Lexington, Mass.) and Terrence Chen (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting motions associated with a body part of a patient may include using an image sensor installed inside a medical scanner to capture first and second images of the patient inside the medical scanner, wherein the first image may depict the patient in a fi...