ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,556, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for image processing" was invented by Yang Xin (Shanghai), Yuhang Shi (Shanghai), Guobin Li (Shanghai), Lixiang Hu (Shanghai) and Yanxia Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include obtaining an image of an object; obtaining a target artifact identification model; determining target artifact feature information by inputting the image into the target artifact identification model, the target artifact feature information indicating a feature of one or more artifacts in the image; obtaining a target ar...