ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,180, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Pulmonx Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and devices for analyzing lung imaging data" 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. A server computing device receives imaging data of a lung over a network from a client computing device and analyzes the imaging data to identify lung, airways, and blood vessels, segment the lung into lobes, subtract airways, calculate volumes, calculate emphysema scores, identify fissure locations...