ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,477, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to University of Connecticut (Farmington, Conn.).

"Conjoined twin network for treatment and analysis" was invented by Sheida Nabavi (Wellesley, Mass.), Clifford Yang (Farmington, Conn.) and Jun Bai (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for treating an abnormality includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium that includes a first convolutional neural network (CNN) having weights and a second CNN in parallel with the first CNN and sharing the weights, the second CNN being joined to the first neural network by a distance function. The medium includes instructio...