In general, the granted patent application broadly protects Acuo's
technology and use of asset meta information to control routing and
storage of digital assets, including medical images, through a medical
imaging network. The patent application was originally filed in 2001
and has undergone thorough review by the USPTO prior to being approved.

http://www.acuotech.com/news.html

i cant find the full text of the patent anywhere can anyone point to a link somewhere?

Edited by: mpeacock on Dec 8, 2009 11:52 AM

Thanks Damian. Interesting reading (sarcasm!)

Folks may well have been told by counsel not to look at patents so I've put up a quick blog post on my reading of the full text

Edited by: mpeacock on Dec 9, 2009 10:17 AM To link directly to the correct page.