US Patent Issued to Tufts Medical Center, Trustees of Boston University on May 20 for "Objective assessment of joint damage" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,671, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tufts Medical Center Inc. (Boston) and Trustees of Boston University (Boston).

"Objective assessment of joint damage" was invented by Timothy McAlindon (Arlington, Mass.), Jeffrey B. Driban (Arlington, Mass.), Lori Lyn Price (Winchester, Mass.), Michael Lavalley (Arlington, Mass.) and Ming Zhang (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining a composite score includes deriving, based on an image set that includes at least one three-dimensional image of the synovial joint, first and second information. The first information indicates cumulative damage to the synovial joint. The secon...