US patent granted for estimating bone density and fracture risk from X-rays
Alexandria, Virginia. The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted US 11,737,704, "Systems and methods for approximating bone mineral density and fracture risk using single energy x-rays," to 16 Bit. Inventors: Mark Cicero, Alexander Bilbily and Daniel Eftekhari.
The patent, filed in July 2020 with priority to July 2019, covers methods for estimating bone mineral density and predicting fracture risk from standard single-energy X-rays with neural networks, the technology behind Rho. Rho’s authorized use is to flag possible low bone mineral density. Counterparts were filed in Canada, Europe and Israel.
A continuation, US 12,186,092, was granted on January 7, 2025.