ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,189, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to IBEX INNOVATIONS LTD (Stockton-on-Tees, Great Britain).
"Composition-guided post processing for x-ray images" was invented by Adam Ratcliffe (Stockton-on-Tees, Great Britain), Richard Mcwilliam (Stockton-on-Tees, Great Britain) and Chris Egan (Stockton-on-Tees, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of enhancing an x-ray image is disclosed. The method involves obtaining an input image based on a source x-ray image of an object. Compositional information representing physical characteristics of the object is also obtained. An image enhancement process is applied to the input image...