ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,635, issued on March 4, was assigned to Paige.AI Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods to process electronic images for synthetic image generation" was invented by Rodrigo Ceballos Lentini (Flemington, N.J.) and Christopher Kanan (Pittsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for generating synthetic medical images, including images presenting rare conditions or morphologies for which sufficient data may be unavailable. In one aspect, style transfer methods may be used. For example, a target medical image, a segmentation mask identifying style(s) to be transferred to area(s) of the target, and sourc...