ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,160, issued on May 27, was assigned to Optellum Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Method and apparatus to predict feature state change within an image" was invented by Carlos Federico Arteta Montilva (Oxford, Great Britain) and Jerome Declerck (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CADx system for analysing medical images to monitor at least one feature on the image to predict at least one of a change of the state or maintenance of the current state of a monitored feature within a time frame is described. The system comprising: an input circuit for receiving at least one medical input image; a feature state change circu...