ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,596, issued on June 2, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).
"Systems and methods for coronary roadmapping" was invented by Yikang Liu (Cambridge, Mass.), Zhang Chen (Brookline, Mass.), Xiao Chen (Lexington, Mass.), Shanhui Sun (Lexington, Mass.) and Terrence Chen (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for coronary road mapping may include receiving a current image associated with a medical scan, determining an image that matches the current image from a sequence of images for which respective blood vessel maps have been determined, and overlaying the current image with the blood ...