ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,849, issued on May 13, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.), Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.) and University of Notre Dame du Lac (South Bend, Ind.).

"Noise preserving models and methods for resolution recovery of x-ray computed tomography images" was invented by Roman Melnyk (New Berlin, Wis.), Madhuri Mahendra Nagare (Karmala, India), Jie Tang (Merion Station, Pa.), Obaidullah Rahman (South Bend, Ind.), Brian E Nett (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Ken Sauer (South Bend, Ind.) and Charles Addison Bouman Jr. (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Noise preserving models and methods for resolu...