The European Patent Office gave the patent to the team from the University of Science, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City.

European patent for medical AI

The patent was published on July 8, 2026, which is a big step for the university's research and innovation.

This is the university's first European patent for AI in medicine.

The team that made this invention was led by Dr. Le Khanh Duy and included other professors and researchers from the university.

Dr. Le Khanh Duy said the research helps with a big problem in making AI for healthcare: labeling images to create good training data.

Medical imaging datasets often have many images, and experts must find organs or problems in each one, which takes time and can be inconsistent.

The team made a solution that helps label 3D medical images by using computer vision and data visualization, making it easier to verify results.

This approach reduces the time it takes to label images and makes the training data more consistent, which is important for AI models.

Dr. Le Khanh Duy said the value of the invention is in how it helps humans and AI work together to label images.

The solution helps process many medical images more efficiently, which improves the creation of datasets for AI models.

The team hopes the technology will be used in medical image annotation software to create better datasets for research and AI systems.

Two international patents in two months

Earlier, four Vietnamese scientists got a patent from the US for a technology that makes memristors using chromium oxide.

The inventors include professors and researchers from the University of Science and other institutions.

The patent, titled 'Memristor Structures with Analog Switching Characteristics,' was granted on June 30, 2026.

The research uses a new materials platform that can be combined with other layers and electrodes to create new memristors.

The technology enables the development of memory devices with special switching characteristics, which is important for artificial synapses.

The patent also proposes an architecture that stores and processes data locally, which can make AI processing faster and more energy-efficient.

The patent shows the growing capabilities of Vietnamese scientists in semiconductor research.

Vietnamese researchers have gotten two major international patents in a short time, one from the US and one from Europe.

Le Huyen