ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,436, issued on June 30, was assigned to WUHAN UNITED IMAGING SURGICAL Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Surgical pathway processing system, method, device, and storage medium" was invented by Dong Wu (Wuhan, China), Shaowen He (Wuhan, China), Yunhong Yang (Wuhan, China) and Guoqiang Wang (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a surgical pathway processing system, method, device, and storage medium. The system comprises an image segmentation module configured to obtain a first segmented image by performing image segmentation on a first medical image; an avoidance region determination module ...