ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,519, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to EOS IMAGING (Paris).

"Medical imaging conversion method and associated medical imaging 3D model personalization method" was invented by Benjamin Aubert (Quebec, Canada), Nasr Makni (Ferney Voltaire, France), Thierry Cresson (Ottawa), Carlos Alberto Vazquez Hidalgo Gato (Quebec, Canada) and Jacques A. De Guise (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a medical imaging conversion method, automatically converting: at least one or more real x-ray images of a patient, including at least a first anatomical structure of the patient and a second anatomical structure of the patient, int...