US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation, The Johns Hopkins University on Sept. 9 for "System and method for identifying and classifying a feature in an image of a subject" (Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,297, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.) and The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"System and method for identifying and classifying a feature in an image of a subject" was invented by Patrick A. Helm (Canton, Mass.), Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen (Baltimore), Ali Uneri (Columbia, Md.), Craig K. Jones (Reisterstown, Md.), Yixuan Huang (Baltimore) and Xiaoxuan Zhang (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system is disclosed for analyzing image data of a subject. The image data can be collected with an imaging system in a selected manner and/or motion. The image data may include...