ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,660, issued on May 20, was assigned to SHENZHEN KEYA MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and system for automatic calcium scoring from medical images" was invented by Hao-Yu Yang (Seattle), Junjie Bai (Seattle), Youbing Yin (Kenmore, Wash.) and Qi Song (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for medical image analysis. A method may include receiving a medical image acquired of a subject by an image acquisition device. The method may also include applying a calcium detection model to detect at least one calcium region relevant in determining a calcium score from...