ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,798, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG LIFE PUBLIC WELFARE FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Sacroiliitis discrimination method using sacroiliac joint MR image" was invented by Seulkee Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hoon-Suk Cha (Seoul, South Korea), Uju Jeon (Seoul, South Korea) and Myung Jin Chung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for discriminating sacroiliitis by using sacroiliac joint MR images, implemented by one or more processors of a computing device, the method comprising the steps of: collecting MR images related to the sacroiliac joint and preprocessing the collected MR im...