ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,852, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).
"Left atrial appendage assessment method" was invented by Gareth Funka-Lea (Princeton, N.J.), Athira Jane Jacob (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Paul Klein (Princeton, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for left atrial appendage closure device specification from two dimensional (2D) Intracardiac Echo imaging (ICE). In an imaging procedure, 2D ICE is used to acquire images of the left atrium of a patient. A model of the left atrium is generated from the images of the left atrium. The model of the left atrium is used to validate subseq...