ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,850, issued on April 22.
"Methods for remote visual identification of heart conditions" was invented by Baruch Schler (Petach Tikwa, Israel) and Jonathan Schler (Petach Tikwa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for remotely detecting a heart-related condition is presented. The method includes receiving a facial image of a patient, wherein the facial image is retrieved from a data store and captured from the patient; extracting at least one facial feature from the facial image of the patient, wherein the at least one facial feature is represented as numerical descriptors of facial attributes, wherein the numerica...