ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,149, issued on May 27, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for utilizing synthetic medical images generated using a neural network" was invented by Max Louis Olender (Cambridge, Mass.) and Elazer R. Edelman (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for completing a medical image having at least one obscured region includes an input for receiving a first classification map generated using an acquired optical coherence tomography (OCT) image having at least one obscured region, the acquired OCT image acquired using an imaging system and a pre-processing module c...