ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,416, issued on June 3, was assigned to The University Court of the University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Image data processing apparatus and method, a model training apparatus and a training method" was invented by Spyridon Thermos (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Sotirios Tsaftaris (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Alison O'Neil (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image data processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to: receive first medical image data; obtain a first image feature data set from the first medical image data; obtain a ...