US Patent Issued to Shandong University on Aug. 5 for "Auxiliary diagnosis method and system for Parkinson's disease based on static and dynamic features of facial expressions" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,732, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Shandong University (Jinan, China).

"Auxiliary diagnosis method and system for Parkinson's disease based on static and dynamic features of facial expressions" was invented by Xin Ma (Jinan, China), Xiaochen Huang (Jinan, China) and Yibin Li (Jinan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auxiliary diagnosis method for Parkinson's disease (PD) based on static and dynamic features of facial expressions is provided. Video data of various facial expressions performed by a to-be-tested patient is acquired and pre-processed to extract a plurality of optimal facial expression images corresponding to the...