US Patent Issued to LightLab Imaging on May 26 for "Automatic alignment of two pullbacks" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,833, issued on May 26, was assigned to LightLab Imaging Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Automatic alignment of two pullbacks" was invented by Shimin Li (Acton, Mass.) and Ajay Gopinath (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for automatically aligning intravascular data taken during a plurality of pullbacks in a target blood vessel. Extraluminal images may be taken to determine the location of the guide catheter in the target vessel. Two or more pullbacks may then be performed in the target vessel. The start and end point of each pullback may be determined. A distance between the end...