ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,537, issued on Aug. 5.
"2D and 3D color fusion imaging" was invented by Robert Trout (Durham, N.C.), Joseph Izatt (Durham, N.C.), Christian B. Viehland (Durham, N.C.), Cynthia Toth (Durham, N.C.), Anthony Kuo (Durham, N.C.), Jianwei Li (Durham, N.C.), Lejla Vajzovic (Durham, N.C.) and Al-Hafeez Dhalla (Durham, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fusing 2D and 3D imaging data includes receiving 3D imaging data and 2D color imaging data of a region of interest, segmenting the 3D imaging data to identify anatomical features in the region of interest, including surfaces of the anatomical features and a corresponding volume of ...