ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,798, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to iSchemaView Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Concurrent display of hemodynamic parameters and damaged brain tissue" was invented by Roland Bammer (Carlton, Australia), Matus Straka (Winterthur, Switzerland) and Jurgen Endres (Heilsbronn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Images can be generated with overlays indicating an amount of brain tissue damage based on the disruption of blood supply. Imaging data can be analyzed to determine perfusion parameters with respect to regions of the brain of an individual. The thresholds for the perfusion parameters with respect to the presence of damaged brai...