ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,779, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Translational Imaging Innovations Inc. (Hickory, N.C.).

"Methods, systems and computer program products for classifying image data for future mining and training" was invented by Eric L. Buckland (Hickory, N.C.), Micaela R. Mendlow (Jersey City, N.J.) and Robert C. Williams (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for segmenting images is provided including tessellating an image obtained from one of an image database and an imaging system into a plurality of sectors; classifying each of the plurality of sectors by applying one or more pre-defined labels to each of the plurality of ...