ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,151, issued on June 3, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"DA-BD-LSTM-dense-UNet for liver lesion segmentation" was invented by Philip Leung Ho Yu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Keith Chiu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Man Fung Yuen (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Wai Kay Walter Seto (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods using artificial intelligence for the detection and characterization of liver cancers."

The patent was filed on March 23, 2021, under Application No. 17/916,589.

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