ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,640, issued on March 17, was assigned to SHANGHAI PULSE MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INC. (Shanghai).

"Training method and apparatus for angiography image processing, and automatic processing method and apparatus" was invented by Shengxian Tu (Shanghai), Chunming Li (Shanghai), Hui Qin (Shanghai) and Shuzhan Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A training method and apparatus for angiography image processing and a method and apparatus for automatically processing a vessel image. The training method includes obtaining training data that includes original angiography image data and local segmentation result data of a side branch vessel...