US Patent Issued to BelleTorus on Feb. 4 for "Compute system with skin disease identification mechanism and method of operation thereof" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,422, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to BelleTorus Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Compute system with skin disease identification mechanism and method of operation thereof" was invented by Tien Dung Nguyen (Toulouse, France), Thang Duc Nguyen (Toulouse, France), Folkert Blok (Toulouse, France), Jonathan Wolfe (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.), Kavita Mariwalla (Oyster Bay, N.Y.) and Nga Thi Thuy Nguyen (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operation of a compute system includes: qualifying a patient image for analyzing a suspected skin condition; detecting a skin area in the patient image; segmenting the skin area into a segme...