ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,949, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Systems for automated lesion detection and related methods" was invented by Engin Dikici (Dublin, Ohio), Luciano Prevedello (Dublin, Ohio) and Matthew Bigelow (Hilliard, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems and methods for lesion detection are described herein. An example system includes at least one processor and a memory operably coupled to the at least one processor. The system also includes a candidate selection module configured to receive an image, determine a plurality of candidate points in the image, and select a respec...