ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,166, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Thumbnail animation for medical imaging" was invented by Alexey Chernyavskiy (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of generating a medical imaging thumbnail animation (325) includes obtaining a plurality of medical images (324) from a medical imaging examination, and automatically defining a zone of interest to identify in the plurality of medical images (324). The computer-implemented method also includes identifying, by a processor (1221), the zone of interest in the plurality of medical images ...