ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,738, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to REAL TIME TOMOGRAPHY LLC (Villanova, Pa.).

"Automated multi-class segmentation of digital mammogram" was invented by Susan Ng (Villanova, Pa.), Vincent Yun Dong (Philadelphia), Tristan Douglas Maidment (Villanova, Pa.), Lucas Rodrigues Borges (Sao Paulo), Katherine Martling Hopkins (Lancaster, Pa.), Johnny Kuo (Lancaster, Pa.), Albert Milani (Merion Station, Pa.) and Peter A. Ringer (Allentown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes methods and systems for training a machine learning model to segment digital breast images into key regions of interest, and also for using the ...