ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,559, issued on July 1, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Genomic biomarker prediction from medical images" was invented by Shreya Sharma (Karnataka, India), Srikanth Ragothaman (Karnataka, India) and Shantanu Majumdar (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided for image processing of medical images. The method may include receiving one or more medical images. Tissue regions may be identified in each of the one or more medical images. The method may include generating patches associated with respective identified tissue regions. A patch tumor...