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Vizbodx Expands Clinician-First AI Architecture with Third Patent Filing

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New invention automates region-of-interest placement in infrared thermal imaging while preserving clinician control

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Vizbodx, Inc., a Birmingham, Alabama-based medical technology company, today announced that it has filed a provisional patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a new invention designed to automate region-of-interest (ROI) placement in infrared thermal imaging while keeping the licensed clinician at the center of the clinical workflow.

The application, titled “Clinician-Initiated Region-of-Interest Placement via Anatomical Landmark Registration in Infrared Thermal Imagery,” was filed September 2, 2026 (Docket No. 586076-7) and builds directly on the company’s patent-pending Clinician-First AI Clinical Workflow.

The invention addresses a longstanding workflow challenge in thermal imaging analysis: manually placing corresponding regions of interest on opposite sides of the body, or across imaging sessions, to calculate temperature differentials (ΔT). Manual placement can be time-consuming and introduce variability, while simple mirror-image reflection can be unreliable because patients are rarely positioned in perfect symmetry.

Using Vizbodx, the workflow begins with the clinician identifying a region of interest that merits further evaluation. The technology then uses anatomical landmark registration and an area-preserving transform to propose a corresponding region — on the opposite side of the body, the same side, or during a later imaging session. The clinician must confirm, adjust, or reject the proposed placement before the measurement is recorded. When appropriate, artificial intelligence may also alert the clinician to other thermal findings within the image for consideration. In each instance, the clinician remains the driver of critical thinking and clinical judgment in the evaluation of the patient.

“AI should sharpen clinical judgment, not substitute for it,” said Barry Hix, Co-Founder and CEO of Vizbodx. “Our Clinician-First AI architecture is designed to automate the repetitive and time-consuming parts of the workflow while keeping the medical professional in control of the decisions that matter. This latest filing extends that principle directly into thermal image analysis.”

The technology is also designed to support longitudinal tracking. Once a region is confirmed, its location can be stored relative to anatomical landmarks rather than fixed pixel coordinates, allowing the region to be reconstructed at the corresponding anatomical location in future imaging sessions despite differences in patient positioning, capture distance, or imaging equipment.

This approach enables clinicians to evaluate thermal patterns and temperature differentials over time, adding longitudinal context to what has traditionally been a point-in-time measurement and providing insight into a patient’s physiological trajectory.

“The challenge is not simply automating region placement. It is making that placement anatomically consistent while accounting for the natural differences in how a person is positioned from one image to the next,” said Mayco Anderson Moreira, Chief Technology Officer of Vizbodx and co-inventor. “By registering regions to anatomical landmarks, we can improve consistency across bilateral comparisons and over time while still requiring the clinician to confirm the result.”

The application, prepared by Husch Blackwell, names Barry Hix and Mayco Anderson Moreira as co-inventors and is assigned to Vizbodx, Inc. It represents Vizbodx’s third patent filing, following earlier applications covering the company’s Clinician-First AI Clinical Workflow and Thermal Concordance Protocol.

With its third patent filing, Vizbodx continues to build an intellectual property portfolio around Clinician-First AI, an architecture designed to use artificial intelligence to improve clinical workflow, consistency, and longitudinal insight without transferring clinical judgment from the medical professional to the algorithm.

About Vizbodx

Vizbodx, Inc., a Birmingham, Alabama-based medical technology company, develops infrared thermal intelligence applications for sports and occupational medicine. Built on proprietary Clinician-First AI architecture, the Vizbodx platform visualizes, organizes, and presents thermal data, including bilateral comparisons and longitudinal trend data, for review by licensed medical professionals.

Vizbodx does not render diagnoses or clinical determinations. The platform is designed as a complementary tool to the physical examination, providing additional objective information for medical professionals evaluating athletes, workers, servicemen, and servicewomen.

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Leidos to keep 650,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel securely connected worldwide

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Department of Navy awards $875 million for second option year on contract to secure and maintain critical networks worldwide

RESTON, Va., Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will continue helping keep more than 650,000 U.S. Navy and Marine Corps personnel securely connected by managing more than 425,000 devices at more than 2,500 sites around the world.

The Navy recently awarded Leidos $875 million for the second option year of the Next Generation Enterprise Network Service Management, Integration and Transport contract. The company is responsible for all aspects of user support, operations and IT transformational activities on the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), Outside the Continental United States Navy Enterprise Network (ONE-Net) and Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN).

“Military and civilian personnel rely on these networks to communicate, make decisions and carry out missions that protect our nation and its allies,” said Steve Hull, president of Leidos Digital. “We’re supporting the technology they depend on so it remains secure, resilient and ready when they need it.”

Since being awarded the contract in 2020, Leidos has helped the Navy and Marine Corps modernize their IT environments while improving network resilience. The company has introduced automation that delivers patches to network devices 93% faster and accelerates patching across the enterprise by 94%, addressing vulnerabilities sooner and reducing potential disruptions for personnel who rely on these networks.

“During my time in the Navy, I learned that when technology works seamlessly in the background, you’re free to give the mission your full attention. These results reflect our team’s 24/7 dedication to making that possible,” said DJ LeGoff, a retired Navy captain and the Navy and Marine Corps portfolio leader at Leidos.

This award supports Leidos’ NorthStar 2030 strategy and its focus on digital modernization, cyber capabilities and mission software.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 50,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.  

Certain statements in this announcement constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These statements are based on management’s current beliefs and expectations and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. These statements are not guarantees of future results or occurrences. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements, or industry results to be different from the results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the “Risk Factors” set forth in Leidos’ Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026, and other such filings that Leidos makes with the SEC from time to time. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Leidos does not undertake to update forward-looking statements to reflect the impact of circumstances or events that arise after the date the forward-looking statements were made.

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Columbus McKinnon to Attend Upcoming Investor Conferences

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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Columbus McKinnon Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCO) (“CMCO” or the “Company”), today announced that it will present at the Sidoti Small Cap Virtual Conference on September 23, 2026 at approximately 12:15 p.m. Eastern Time. Representatives from the Company will also attend the D.A. Davidson 25th Annual Diversified Industrials & Services Conference in on September 24, 2026 and the Deutsche Bank 34th Annual Leveraged Finance Conference on September 30, 2026.

The live audio webcast of the Sidoti conference will be available via the Columbus McKinnon Investor Relations webpage at investors.cmco.com. A replay of the webcast will be available on the Company’s Investor Relations page shortly following the respective presentations through October 7, 2026.

About Columbus McKinnon Corporation
CMCO is a global leader in intelligent motion solutions designed to advance performance and productivity, helping customers move the world forward with confidence. Guided by its mission to deliver innovative solutions with unmatched safety, quality and reliability, CMCO enables efficient lifting, positioning, securing and movement of materials across a wide range of end markets. Its portfolio spans five key platforms: lifting hardware consumables, hoists and cranes, precision conveyance, automation and linear motion. Driven by a vision for a safer, more productive tomorrow, CMCO partners with customers to solve some of their most complex intralogistics challenges and keep industry in motion. Comprehensive information is available at www.cmco.com.

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Alexandre Eldredge
Investor.Relations@cmco.com

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VPN.com CEO Warns AI Cybersecurity Costs Could Reach $3 Trillion As Domains Become Brand Security Assets

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ATLANTA and WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — VPN.com CEO and expert premium domain broker Michael Gargiulo is highlighting a growing reality for executives, cybersecurity leaders, and global brands: artificial intelligence is changing the cost, speed, and scope of digital defense.

“AI has changed the economics of cybersecurity,” said Michael Gargiulo, CEO of VPN.com, a category leading company in cybersecurity, Internet brand security, and domain name technology. “Companies are not only defending networks anymore. They are defending devices, endpoints, agents, browsers, domains, Internet Protocol space, and the trust customers place in their brand identity. Any estimate that leaves out depreciating assets, planned upgrades, global domain protection, and brand access points is likely too low.”

On a recent earnings call Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said “there’s approximately $1 trillion of global cybersecurity debt that must be modernized to defend against automated threats because they operate instantaneously.”

Gargiulo believes the real number may be significantly higher, potentially as much as three times larger than some current estimates, once companies account for global endpoint growth, aging hardware, cloud expansion, artificial intelligence agents, domain name protection, AI-expanded surfaces, and future infrastructure refresh cycles.

With the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) preparing for new generic top-level domain activations, making more multilingual internet addresses possible, VPN.com believes brand protection will become a larger part of cybersecurity planning.

“Your domain name is no longer just where your website lives,” said Michael Gargiulo. “It is a brand access point. It is part of your customer trust layer. It is part of your security perimeter. In the AI era, cyber location is brand security.”

VPN.com says companies must review more than firewalls, laptops, and cloud accounts. They should examine exposed devices, browser access, employee endpoints, vendor portals, application programming interfaces, domain portfolios, country-code top-level domains, lookalike domains, internationalized domains, and premium cyber location domains that could influence trust or confusion in the market.

The company, which became a category leading expert organization in cybersecurity and internet domain name security, also warns that AI-powered impersonation, phishing, fake support pages, and automated brand abuse can move quickly once attackers identify a weak point. A fragmented domain strategy can make it easier to confuse customers, employees, vendors, and partners.

“With trillions of dollars in plausible cybersecurity exposure, brands should not wait until AI-driven impersonation becomes a boardroom emergency,” added Michael Gargiulo. “Premium domains, defensive registrations, clean Internet Protocol space, core containment, and trusted digital access points should be evaluated before attackers or competitors exploit the gaps.”

About VPN.com

VPN.com providers expert insights and research on the best ways to protect yourself and your brand when you get online. VPN.com, CEO Michael Gargiulo and VP Sharjil Saleem have spent years guiding brands through high-value domain acquisitions, global brand management, and complex digital asset negotiations. The company understands what it takes to secure world-class digital category-defining domain name and assets.

For media and interview inquiries: Michael Gargiulo, 855-VPN-FAST or 422448@email4pr.com

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