ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,751, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for recursive medical image display protocols" was invented by Yongjian Bao (Chicago), Michael J Mercado (Chicago), Mukesh Jain (Chicago), Sayooj Cyriac (Chicago) and Hariom Kuntal (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display protocol model having a recursive modular structure enables methods for displaying medical images. A method includes recursively generating a viewing layout which divides a display area of a display device into a plurality of medical image viewport placeholders by invoking a first layout having a firs...