US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation on June 17 for "System, method and computer readable medium for video-based facial weakness analysis for detecting neurological deficits" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,221, issued on June 17, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"System, method and computer readable medium for video-based facial weakness analysis for detecting neurological deficits" was invented by Gustavo Rohde (Dunn Loring, Va.), Andrew M. Southerland (Charlottesville, Va.), Yan Zhuang (Charlottesville, Va.), Mark McDonald (Charlottesville, Va.), Omar Uribe (Sterling, Va.), Chad M. Aldridge (Charlottesville, Va.) and Mohamed Abul Hassan (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated and quantitative facial weakness screening framework that utilizes a Bi-LSTM network to model...