US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, University of Maryland on June 23 for "Techniques for screening and monitoring patients for aortic aneurysms" (Michigan, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,015, issued on June 23, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.) and University of Maryland (College Park, Md.).

"Techniques for screening and monitoring patients for aortic aneurysms" was invented by Ramakrishna Mukkamala (Okemos, Mich.), Mohammad Yavarimanesh (Lansing, Mich.) and Jin-Oh Hahn (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aortic aneurysm carries increasing risk of rupture with growing aneurysm diameter. This condition is typically asymptomatic, so screening and surveillance are essential. Ultrasound and other imaging methods are employed for such monitoring at high accu...