ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,944, issued on March 25, was assigned to VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLC (Dallas).

"Systems and methods for simulating medical images using generative adversarial networks" was invented by Ali Behrooz (San Bruno, Calif.) and Cheng-Hsun Wu (San Bruno, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One disclosed example method for simulated medical images using GANs includes receiving, by a generative adversarial network ("GAN"), a plurality of training images, the training images associated with an affliction and depicting different stages of progression for the affliction; generating, using the GAN, a latent space based on the training images, the ...