US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on June 23 for "Dictionary-based tissue assessment and abnormality detection" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,070, issued on June 23, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Dictionary-based tissue assessment and abnormality detection" was invented by Craig Galban (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Sundaresh Ram (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of tissue assessment includes obtaining a plurality of input data samples, each input data sample being representative of tissue in one of multiple views, determining a set of sparse codes for each input data sample of the plurality of input data samples, determining a reconstruction error for the set of sparse codes relative to ...