ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,207, issued on April 21, was assigned to Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland), University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (Cleveland), Florida Institute of Technology (Melbourne, Fla.) and University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"Prediction of stent expansion for treatments" was invented by David L. Wilson (Cleveland Heights, Ohio), Yazan Gharaibeh (Shaker Heights, Ohio), Juhwan Lee (Westlake, Ohio), Sadeer Al-Kindi (Lyndhurst, Ohio), Vladislav N. Zimin (Beachwood, Ohio), Linxia Gu (Melbourne, Fla.), Pengfei Dong (Melbourne, Fla.) and Hiram Bezerra (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure, in s...