ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,718, issued on March 17, was assigned to Varex Imaging Corp. (Salt Lake City).

"Handling truncated data in iterative reconstruction" was invented by Kevin Holt (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is described for handling truncated data in iterative reconstruction. A method comprises iterating on a volume of an object including a non-truncated part based on image data and at least one truncated part representing deficiently imaged data. The volume is represented by voxels. The iterating includes regularizing the non-truncated part of the volume using a first regularizer, and regularizing the truncated part of the volu...