ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,108, issued on July 1, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"System and method for follow-up local feature matching based on multiple functional-anatomical feature layers" was invented by Raz Carmi (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining functional and anatomical image data sets from a subject acquired at different dates. The method includes receiving a volumetric coordinate of interest in a specified functional and anatomical image data set. The method includes generating a 3D feature matching map for at least one functional feature layer type and for at least one anatomical...