US Patent Issued to LightLab Imaging on March 3 for "Longitudinal display of coronary artery calcium burden" (Massachusetts, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,148, issued on March 3, was assigned to LightLab Imaging Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Longitudinal display of coronary artery calcium burden" was invented by Gregory Patrick Amis (Westford, Mass.), Ajay Gopinath (Bedford, Mass.) and Mark Hoeveler (Eliot, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods to receiving OCT or IVUS image data frames to output one or more representations of a blood vessel segment. The image data frames may be stretched and/or aligned using various windows or bins or alignment features. Arterial features, such as the calcium burden, may be detected in each of the image da...