US Patent Issued to WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for lung compliance imaging" (Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,781, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL (Royal Oak, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for lung compliance imaging" was invented by Girish B. Nair (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Edward Castillo (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for computing lung compliance imaging, the method comprising obtaining one or more images of lungs, determining a spatial transformation of each voxel within the lungs between the lungs at an inhale position and the lungs at an exhale position to provide displacement vector estimates for each voxel within the lungs, performing volume change inference operations to determine a volume ...