ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,057, issued on April 8, was assigned to Vilnius University (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Kaunas University of Technology (Kaunas, Lithuania).

"System for visual data analysis of ultrasound examinations with and without a contrast medium, for early automated diagnostics of pancreatic pathologies" was invented by Aiste Kielaite-Gulla (Vilnius, Lithuania), Renaldas Raisutis (Kaunas, Lithuania), Kestutis Strupas (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Arturas Samuilis (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "We present a system and method for analysis of image and data of ultrasound and ultrasound with contrast medium of human pancreatic tissues t...