US Patent Issued to Heartflow on March 17 for "Systems and methods for image processing to determine blood flow" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,084, issued on March 17, was assigned to Heartflow Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for image processing to determine blood flow" was invented by Sethuraman Sankaran (Redwood City, Calif.), Leo J. Grady (Darien, Conn.) and Charles A. Taylor (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include systems and methods for determining cardiovascular information for a patient. A method includes receiving patient-specific data regarding a geometry of the patient's vasculature; creating an anatomic model representing at least a portion of the patient's vasculature based on the patient-specific data; and c...