ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,972, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to AFX MEDICAL INC. (Montreal).

"Systems and methods for segmenting 3D images comprising a downsampler, low-resolution module trained to infer a complete low-resolution segmentation and generate corresponding low-resolution feature maps from an input downsampled high-resolution 3D image and high-resolution module trained to infer a complete high-resolution segmentation from an input from the low-resolution module and 3D high-resolution image" was invented by Dante De Nigris (Montreal), Gabriel Chartrand (Magog, Canada) and Simon Ducharme (Montreal, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and m...