ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,782, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for displaying stenosis measurements and calculations" was invented by Jacob Schieffelin Brauer (Cambridge, Mass.), Rohini Deb (Boston) and David Michael Vaccaro (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods calculate a first stenosis measurement of a measured location in a lumen based on optical-imaging data of the lumen, on the measured location in the lumen, and on a first reference location in the lumen; and generate a screen that includes a tomographic view of the lumen, a longitudinal view...