ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,453, issued on March 4, was assigned to LITTLE ANGEL MEDICAL INC. (Pointe-Claire, Canada).

"System and method for automatic personalized assessment of human body surface conditions" was invented by Matthew Toews (Pointe-Claire, Canada), James Lee (Pointe-Claire, Canada) and Mohsen BenLazreg (Trois-Rivieres, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for personalized diagnosis of human body surface conditions from images acquired from a mobile camera device. In an embodiment, the system and method is used to diagnose skin, throat and ear conditions from photographs. A system and method are provided for data acquisition ...