US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM on July 1 for "Systems and methods for modeling the breast using spherical harmonics" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,159, issued on July 1, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM (Houston).

"Systems and methods for modeling the breast using spherical harmonics" was invented by Fatima Merchant (Houston) and Audrey Cheong (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a computer implemented method are disclosed to model breast shape using three-dimensional spherical harmonics with adjustable parameters to modulate breast size, projection, and/or ptosis. The method includes receiving a 3D image including a breast, identifying the breast in the 3D image, extracting 3D image data of the breast from the 3D image, forming a closed objec...