US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Oct. 20 for "Noninvasive quantitative flow mapping using a virtual catheter volume" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,792, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Noninvasive quantitative flow mapping using a virtual catheter volume" was invented by Mohammed S. M. Elbaz (Chicago) and Michael Markl (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described here are systems and methods for generating quantitative flow mapping from medical flow data (e.g., medical images, patient-specific computational flow models, particle image velocimetry data, in vitro flow phantom) over a virtual volume representative of a catheter or other medical device. As such, quantitative flow mapping is provided with reduced computational burden...