ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,231, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Detecting ischemic stroke mimic using deep learning-based analysis of medical images" was invented by Synho Do (Natick, Mass.), Byung Chul Yoon (Winchester, Mass.), Ramon Gilberto Gonzalez (Cambridge, Mass.), Michael H. Lev (Newton, Mass.) and Stuart Robert Pomerantz (Needham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ischemic stroke mimic is detected, or otherwise predicted, based on medical images acquired from a subject. Medical image data, which include medical images acquired from a head of the subject, are accessed with a computer system. A machine lear...