ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,159, issued on May 27, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Image processing for stroke characterization" was invented by Ravindra Patil (Bangalore, India), Shreya Anand (Bangalore, India), Sudipta Chaudhury (Bangalore, India) and Nagaraju Bussa (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses an apparatus for stroke characterization. The apparatus comprises a processor. The processor is configured to receive image data representing a three-dimensional image of a head of a subject; identify a region within the image data corresponding to bone in the head of the subject; apply an ...