ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,992, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for interpretation of multiple medical images using deep learning" was invented by Scott McKinney (San Francisco), Marcin Sieniek (Mountain View, Calif.), Varun Godbole (Mountain View, Calif.), Shravya Shetty (San Francisco), Natasha Antropova (London), Jonathan Godwin (London), Christopher Kelly (London) and Jeffrey De Fauw (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed of processing a set of images. Each image in the set has an associated counterpart image. One or more regions of interest (ROIs) are identified in one or more o...