US Patent Issued to Medis Associated on March 24 for "Method of determining a motion of a heart wall" (Dutch, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,216, issued on March 24, was assigned to Medis Associated B.V. (Leiden, Netherlands).

"Method of determining a motion of a heart wall" was invented by Gianni Pedrizzetti (Prato, Italy), David Jonathan Hautemann (Bleiswijk, Netherlands), Pieter Hendrik Kitslaar (Leiden, Netherlands) and Johan Hendrikus Christiaan Reiber (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sequence of images acquired consecutively in time at fixed time intervals is received, the images comprising image data of at least part of a heart having a heart wall, identifying, in each image, at least part of the heart wall and defining, in each image, at l...