ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,168, issued on June 2, was assigned to United Imaging Intelligence (Beijing) Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Systems and methods for processing mammogram images" was invented by Zhang Chen (Brookline, Mass.), Shanhui Sun (Lexington, Mass.), Xiao Chen (Lexington, Mass.), Yikang Liu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Terrence Chen (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with processing mammogram images using machine learning based techniques. An apparatus as described herein may obtain a mammographic image of a person, extract features from the mammographic image using a feature ...