ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,129, issued on April 8, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"System and method for automated transform by manifold approximation" was invented by Matthew S. Rosen (Somerville, Mass.), Bo Zhu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Bruce R. Rosen (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may transform sensor data from a sensor domain to an image domain using data-driven manifold learning techniques which may, for example, be implemented using neural networks. The sensor data may be generated by an image sensor, which may be part of an imaging system. Fully connected layers of a neural network in the system may be appli...