ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,589, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Ultrasound AI Inc. (Greenwood Village, Colo.).

"Artificial intelligence system for determining drug use through medical imaging" was invented by Robert S Bunn (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for establishing a patient's pharmaceutical use are provided. A neural network is trained on a dataset of medical images, such as ultrasound images, that are tagged with information concerning the use of the pharmaceutical by people who were imaged to produce the medical images. The trained neural network can then be provided with medical images of a patient, and t...