ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,675, issued on May 20, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for segmenting objects in medical images" was invented by Laszlo Rusko (Budapest, Hungary), Vanda Czipczer (Budapest, Hungary), Bernadett Kolozsvari (Budapest, Hungary), Richard Zsamboki (Budapest, Hungary), Tao Tan (Noord Brabant, Netherlands), Balazs Peter Cziria (Budapest, Hungary), Attila Mark Radics (Budapest, Hungary), Lehel Ferenczi (Budapest, Hungary), Fei Mian (Waukesha, Wis.), Hongxiang Yi (Excelsior, Minn.) and Florian Wiesinger (Freising, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for seg...