ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,206, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to University of Hawaii (Honolulu) and Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Anthropometry by two-dimensional radiographic imaging" was invented by John A. Shepherd (Honolulu), Lambert Thomas Lam King Leong (Honolulu) and Thomas L. Kelly (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, anthropometric parameters of a subject are ascertained from radiographic image data. Radiograph image data is transformed to a representation of a lower dimensionality than the dimensionality of the image data by an machine learning processor. The representation of the radio graph image data is mapped to ...