US Patent Issued to JIANGHAN UNIVERSITY on April 1 for "Hand acupoint positioning method, device, acupuncture robot and storage medium" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,206, issued on April 1, was assigned to JIANGHAN UNIVERSITY (Wuhan, China).

"Hand acupoint positioning method, device, acupuncture robot and storage medium" was invented by Qiang He (Hubei, China), Yi Zheng (Hubei, China), Hongxing Zhang (Hubei, China) and Qian Tu (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand acupoint positioning method, device, acupuncture robot and storage medium, which comprises: obtaining reflex zones of a hand image and topology relationship of hand acupoints; splicing the reflex zones, the topology relationship and the hand image to obtain a hand splicing image; inputing the hand splicing image into an ac...