ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,182, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to OSF Healthcare System (Peoria, Ill.) and THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Ill.).

"Automatic segmentation and multimodal image fusion for stereoelectroencephalographic (SEEG) analysis in virtual reality (SAVR)" was invented by Bradley P. Sutton (Savoy, Ill.), Matthew Bramlet (Peoria, Ill.), Yogatheesan Varatharajah (Minneapolis), James Evans (Urbana, Ill.), Andres Maldonado (Peoria, Ill.), Michael Xu (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) and Nathan Soria (Peoria, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, co-registering MRI da...