ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,566, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SPRINGBOK INC. (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Systems and methods for extremity analysis and modeling using medical imaging" was invented by Lara Riem (Charlottesville, Va.), Silvia Blemker (Charlottesville, Va.), Xue Feng (Charlottesville, Va.), Matthew Cousins (Charlottesville, Va.) and Olivia DuCharme (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for upper extremity analysis and modeling using medical imaging. The systems and methods may be used to identify and segment both muscle and fatty tissue directly from the standard clinical images, and may be fully ...