ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,150, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to STRASBOURG (Strasbourg, France).

"Method and system for segmenting and identifying at least one tubular structure in medical images" was invented by Adrien Heitz (Obernai, France), Julien Weinzorn (Strasbourg, France) and Luc Soler (Strasbourg, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention concerns a computer implemented method for segmenting and identifying at least one tubular structure, having a 3D tree layout and located in at least one body part of a subject, in medical images showing a volume region of interest of said subject containing said body part(s), and for providing a label...