ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,802, issued on April 21, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Predicting embolization procedure status" was invented by Leili Salehi (Waltham, Mass.), Ayushi Sinha (Baltimore), Ramon Quido Erkamp (Swampscott, Mass.), Ashish Sattyavrat Panse (Burlington, Mass.) and Grzegorz Andrzej Toporek (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of predicting a status of an embolization procedure on an aneurism, includes: receiving (S110) projection image data (110) representing temporal blood flow in a region of the anatomy including the aneurism during the embolization procedure;...