ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,347, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.) and The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Generation of image denoising training data via photon-count splitting" was invented by Sen Wang (Stanford, Calif.), Yirong Yang (Stanford, Calif.), Zhye Yin (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Adam S. Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems/techniques that facilitate generation of image denoising training data via photon-count splitting are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a set of sinograms generated by a photon-counting computed tomo...