US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on March 3 for "Systems and methods for detecting and characterizing COVID-19" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,146, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Systems and methods for detecting and characterizing COVID-19" was invented by Michael A. Jacobs (Sparks, Md.) and Vishwa Sanjay Parekh (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving one or more radiological images of an anatomy of a patient. The method also includes identifying a boundary of different tissue types in the anatomy of the patient based at least partially upon the one or more radiological images. The method also includes identifying one or more regions within the boundary. The one or more regions include a lung regi...