US Patent Issued to Axial Medical Printing on April 15 for "Method for generating a 3D physical model of a patient specific anatomic feature from 2D medical images" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,712, issued on April 15, was assigned to Axial Medical Printing Ltd. (Belfast, Great Britain).

"Method for generating a 3D physical model of a patient specific anatomic feature from 2D medical images" was invented by Niall Haslam (Belfast, Great Britain), Lorenzo Trojan (Belfast, Great Britain) and Daniel Crawford (Belfast, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for generating a 3D physical model of a patient specific anatomic feature from 2D medical images. The 2D medical images are uploaded by an end-user via a Web Application and sent to a server. The server processes the 2D medical images and autom...