ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,560, issued on May 20, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for processing medical images with invertible neural networks" was invented by Zhang Chen (Cambridge, Mass.), Siyuan Dong (New Haven, Conn.), Shanhui Sun (Cambridge, Mass.), Xiao Chen (Cambridge, Mass.), Yikang Liu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Terrence Chen (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with using an invertible neural network to complete various medical imaging tasks. Unlike traditional neural networks that may learn to map input data...