ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,619, issued on June 23, was assigned to WUHAN UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Method and system for image enhancement" was invented by Anyi Liu (Wuhan, China), Chuandong Li (Wuhan, China), Zhixin Tian (Wuhan, China), Hao Ling (Wuhan, China) and Jianmin Zhang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and systems for image enhancement. The methods may include obtaining an initial image. The methods may include obtaining a first image and a second image by performing speckle noise reduction and edge enhancement on the initial image, respectively. The methods may further incl...