US Patent Issued to Heartflow on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods for image processing to determine blood flow" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,741, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Heartflow Inc. (San Francisco).

"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 creating a ...