ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,706, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AGFA HEALTHCARE NV (Mortsel, Belgium) and VRVIS ZENTRUM FUR VIRTUAL REALITY UND VISUALISIERUNG FORSCHUNGS-GMBH (Vienna).

"Method for finding image regions that significantly influence classification in a tool for pathology classification in a medical image" was invented by David Major (Mortsel, Belgium), Dimitrios Lenis (Mortsel, Belgium), Maria Wimmer (Mortsel, Belgium), Gert Sluiter (Mortsel, Belgium), Astrid Berg (Mortsel, Belgium) and Katja Buehler (Mortsel, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for finding image regions that significantly influence classification in a tool for pa...