ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,530, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TRANSLATIONAL IMAGING INNOVATIONS INC. (Hickory, N.C.).

"Modular machine learning systems, databases, methods, and computer program products for developing and deploying automated image segmentation programs" was invented by Bhavna Antony (Templestowe Lower, Australia), Eric L. Buckland (Hickory, N.C.), Alexander E. Salmon (Garner, N.C.) and Robert C. Williams (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for training and deployment of automated image segmentation algorithms is provided. The system includes a database; one or more user interfaces for curating collections of images and a...