ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,796, issued on April 21, was assigned to E.CIS LLC (Akron, Ohio).

"Method for capillary index scoring" was invented by Firas Al-Ali (Hudson, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic capillary index scoring (eCIS) method is provided. The method includes providing a co-registered diagnostic cerebral angiogram (DCA) and quantifying an actual capillary blush area of a portion of the diagnostic cerebral angiogram representing an ischemic hemisphere. The method further quantifies an expected capillary blush area of the portion of the diagnostic cerebral angiogram representing the ischemic hemisphere. An eCIS is calculated by divi...