ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,459, issued on July 14, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Image and segmentation label generative model for tree-structured data and application" was invented by Nenggan Zheng (Hangzhou, China), Chao Liu (Hangzhou, China), Deli Wang (Hangzhou, China), Han Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Zhaohui Wu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image and segmentation label generative model for tree-structured data and application. The model includes a simulation model for tree-structured image designed based on a small amount of expert knowledge and a generative network model based on morphological lo...