ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,891, issued on May 13, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and system for automatically propagating segmentation in a medical image" was invented by Pragati Harwalkar (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method and system for automatically propagating segmentation in a medical image. In an embodiment, the method uses a segmented reference Region of Interest (RoI) in a reference image to determine segmentation parameters and a plurality of reference points. Further, method generates a plurality of translated points on a current image, in which a target RoI must b...