ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,346, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to AUGMEDICS LTD. (Yokneam Illit, Israel).

"Methods for medical image visualization" was invented by Silvina Rybnikov (Zichron Ya'akov, Israel), Gal Bar-Zohar (Yokneam Hamoshava, Israel), Nissan Elimelech (Be'erotaim, Israel) and Yotam Portal (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) image of a region of a body of a patient, the 3D image having feature values. The 3D image is segmented to define one or more regions of interest (ROIs). At least one region of interest (ROI) feature threshold is determined. A back...