ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,721, issued on July 8, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHLIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Automatic diagnosis report preparation" was invented by Axel Saalbach (Hamburg, Germany), Michael Grass (Buchholz in der Nordheide, Germany), Tom Brosch (Hamburg, Germany), Jens Von Berg (Hamburg, Germany) and Stewart Young (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a conventional system for preparing reports on findings in medical images, the actual formulation of the report is not or only insufficiently supported by the computer-based system. Although there are efforts to improve such a system through automatic reporting, however, in p...