ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,570, issued on July 1, was assigned to nference Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Apparatus and methods for attribute detection in anatomy data" was invented by Murali Aravamudan (Andover, Mass.) and Venkataramanan Soundararajan (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for attribute detection in anatomical data and methods used therein are described, wherein the apparatus includes a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory includes instructions configuring the processor to receive reference anatomy data and reference metadata, extract anatomic features from the received reference an...