ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,637, issued on March 4, was assigned to EXINI Diagnostics AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Systems and methods for artificial intelligence-based image analysis for detection and characterization of lesions" was invented by Johan Martin Brynolfsson (Helsingborg, Sweden), Kerstin Elsa Maria Johnsson (Lund, Sweden) and Hannicka Maria Eleonora Sahlstedt (Malmo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are systems and methods that provide for improved detection and characterization of lesions within a subject via automated analysis of nuclear medicine images, such as positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed ...