ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,159, issued on June 3, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Medical image acquisition apparatus and method" was invented by Jialiang Ren (Beijing), Jingjing Xia (Shanghai) and Zhoushe Zhao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application provide a medical image acquisition apparatus and method. The apparatus comprises: a preprocessing unit, for preprocessing an original image signal to obtain a first number of input images; and a determination unit, for using a training model to determine an analytic relationship between respective pixels at the same position in the first number ...