US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on April 21 for "Endovascular implant decision support in medical imaging" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,206, issued on April 21, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Endovascular implant decision support in medical imaging" was invented by Viorel Mihalef (North Brunswick, N.J.) and Saikiran Rapaka (Pennington, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vascular implant decision support uses a medical imaging system. A physics-based model of the endovascular implant is used to simulate deployment in a vessel model of a patient based on medical imaging. A porosity of the deployed implant and the simulation are used to determine a value for each of one or more hemodynamic parameters to support the decision for endova...