ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,660, issued on May 12, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Determining a length of a stent" was invented by Marcus Pfister (Bubenreuth, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The length of a stent for a branched vessel may be determined without a contrast agent if possible. To this end, a method includes: acquiring a projection recording of the vessel into which an instrument has been introduced; determining the instrument in the projection recording; estimating a 3D reconstruction of the determined instrument from the projection recording in order to obtain a virtual 3D instrument; establishing a start poin...