US Patent Issued to INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION YONSEI UNIVERSITY on March 24 for "Device and method for calculating atrial wall thickness" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,228, issued on March 24, was assigned to INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION YONSEI UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device and method for calculating atrial wall thickness" was invented by Hui-Nam Pak (Seoul, South Korea) and Oh Seok Kwon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of calculating an atrial wall thickness through a device including a processor and a memory according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include (a) receiving image data for a patient's atrium as input data, (b) calculating endocardial and epicardial borders corresponding to starting and ending points of the atrial wall ...