US Patent Issued to MERIT CRO on March 18 for "Image analysis" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,627, issued on March 18, was assigned to MERIT CRO Inc. (Madison, Wis.).

"Image analysis" was invented by Yijun Huang (Fitchburg, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is technology relating to analysis of images and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods and systems for determining the area and/or volume of a region of interest using optical coherence tomography data. Some embodiments provide for determining the area and/or volume of a lesion in retinal tissue using three-dimensional optical coherence tomography data and a two-dimensional optical coherence tomography fundus image."

The patent was filed on Dec....