ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,550, issued on July 1, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Imaging discovery utility for augmenting clinical image management" was invented by Mark Palmer (Oak Grove, Minn.), Kalvin Parman (Maple Grove, Minn.), Ryan P. Lahm (Lino Lakes, Minn.), Megan Samec (Little Canada, Minn.), Srinivasan S. Varahoor (Windsor, Calif.), Priya Nair (Hayward, Calif.), Julianne Spencer (New Brighton, Minn.), Walton W. Baxter (San Clemente, Calif.) and Callie Cronin Myers (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing an imaging discovery utility for augmenting clinical image management. In...