US Patent Issued to Pulmonx on Aug. 11 for "Methods, systems, and devices for analyzing lung imaging data to determine collateral ventilation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,742, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Pulmonx Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and devices for analyzing lung imaging data to determine collateral ventilation" was invented by Sri Radhakrishnan (Cupertino, Calif.) and Ryan Olivera (Granite Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and systems are provided for analyzing lung imaging data. Lung imaging data maybe analyzed to segment the lung, identify fissure locations, calculate fissure defect scores, identify adjacent lung compartments, calculate emphysema scores, calculate volumes, and calculate proximities. Collateral ventilation within a lung c...