US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 28 for "Key frame identification for intravascular ultrasound based on plaque burden" (American, Argentinean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,843, issued on July 28, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Key frame identification for intravascular ultrasound based on plaque burden" was invented by Haruka Imura (Maple Grove, Minn.), Judith Tiferes Wang (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Wenguang Li (Los Gatos, Calif.), Erik Stephen Freed (New Brighton, Minn.), Jennifer Gibbs (White Bear, Minn.) and Anming He Cai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides to process intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) images to identify key frames such as the proximal key frame, a distal key frame, and a minimal key frame from the IVUS ...