ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,590, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Medical image processing using artificial intelligence" was invented by Ashish Kumar Sharma (Karnataka, India), Mohit Dwivedi (Deerfield, Ill.) and Timothy Rose (Pewaukee, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving an image of a portion of a body of a patient. The image was acquired using a first modality. The method also includes receiving a selection of an area of interest of the image, receiving secondary information about the image, the patient, or both, predicting, using a machine learning model, one or more relevant case...