US Patent Issued to AI METRICS, The UAB Research Foundation on Feb. 25 for "Systems and methods for facilitating opportunistic screening for cardiomegaly" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,584, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to AI METRICS LLC (Hoover, Ala.) and The UAB Research Foundation (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Systems and methods for facilitating opportunistic screening for cardiomegaly" was invented by Andrew Dennis Smith (Hoover, Ala.), Robert B. Jacobus Jr. (Mountain Brook, Ala.) and Paige Elaine Severino (Birmingham, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for facilitating opportunistic screening for cardiomegaly includes obtaining a set of computed tomography (CT) images. The set of CT images captures at least a portion of a heart of a patient, and the set of CT images is captured for a p...