US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE on May 13 for "System and method for medical imaging of intervertebral discs" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,879, issued on May 13, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"System and method for medical imaging of intervertebral discs" was invented by Fenggang Jia (Shanghai) and Wenjun Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure directs to a method for image processing. The method may include obtaining scanning data of a spine of a subject, determining one or more centrum parameters of each of a plurality of centrums of the spine based on the scanning data, and identifying at least one intervertebral disc based on the one or more centrum parameters. Each of the at least one intervertebr...