ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,051, issued on Feb. 24.
"System and method of generating a color-coded image demonstrating blood flow" was invented by David Vu (La Jolla, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system of generating a color-coded image demonstrating blood flow in a chosen area in a patient, specifically for diagnosing medical conditions like ischemia, strokes and infarcts. A plurality of images, preferably 3, are taken at different points in time that are a few seconds apart, and colorized by different colors, preferably a first image red, a second image blue and a third image green. These colorized images are then aligned and summated ...