ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,494, issued on May 5.

"Predicting adverse health risk based on CT scan images and AI-enabled cardiovascular structure volumetry" was invented by Morteza Naghavi (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention relate generally to systems and methods for facilitating determining a risk of a patient for an adverse health outcome. In one embodiment, an inventive method includes using an AI-enabled volume calculator to estimate cardiac structure volume from CT scan images; and using a computer enabled risk calculator to, based at least in part on the estimated volume, determine a risk of a patient for an adve...