ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,097, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Shenzhen, China).

"2D-3D medical image registration method, device, computer device, and storage medium" was invented by Ying Hu (Guangdong, China), Peijie Jiang (Guangdong, China), Shaolin Lu (Guangdong, China), Yefeng Liang (Guangdong, China), Yuanyuan Yang (Guangdong, China) and Lihai Zhang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a 2D-3D medical image registration method. The method includes obtaining a preoperative CT image and an intraoperative Xray image of a target bone bloc...