US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on June 3 for "System and method for deep-learning based estimation of coronary artery pressure drop" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,238, issued on June 3, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"System and method for deep-learning based estimation of coronary artery pressure drop" was invented by Prem Venugopal (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Jed Douglas Pack (Glenville, N.Y.), Jhimli Mitra (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Soumya Ghose (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Peter Michael Edic (Marcy, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes obtaining, via a processor, clinical images including vessels and generating, via the processor, straightened-out images for each coronary tree path within res...