ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,322, issued on June 30, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Scoring and ranking angiograms" was invented by Serkan Cimen (Jersey City, N.J.), Dominik Neumann (Erlangen, Germany) and Tiziano Passerini (Plainsboro, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for processing one or more frames of an angiogram are disclosed. The processing may take place during or after an angiography exam. The one or more frames of the angiogram are acquired during the angiography exam. The one or more frames are processed to determine, based on at least one pre-defined criterion, whether the angiogram at least comprises one...