ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,741, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to UNIVERSITE D'EVRY VAL D'ESSONNE (Evry-Courcouronnes, France) and CENTRE HOSPITALIER SUD FRANCILIEN (Corbeil-Essonnes, France).

"Automatic method for segmentation of a thrombus and a lesion in a three-dimensional brain image" was invented by Jonathan Kobold (Weilheim, Germany), Vincent Vigneron (Evry Courcouronnes, France), Hichem Maaref (Evry Courcouronnes, France), Cosmin Alecu (Corbeil-Essonnes, France), Didier Smadja (Corbeil-Essonnes, France), Nicola Chausson (Corbeil-Essonnes, France) and Yann Lhermitte (Corbeil-Essonnes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for segmenting a thro...