ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,963, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huron Technologies International Inc. (St. Jacobs, Canada).

"Systems and methods for automatically managing image data" was invented by Hamid Reza Tizhoosh (St. Jacobs, Canada), Patrick Myles (St. Jacobs, Canada) and Savvas Damaskinos (St. Jacobs, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for curating medical images for a medical image database. An example method for curating involves operating a processor to obtain a query medical image, assign the query medical image to an initial set of related images, and generate a similarity indicator fo...