US Patent Issued to STICHTING IMEC NEDERLAND on Nov. 3 for "Method, a computer program product, and a device for determining a cross-sectional width of an artery" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,543, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to STICHTING IMEC NEDERLAND (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, a computer program product, and a device for determining a cross-sectional width of an artery" was invented by Fabian Beutel (Duesseldorf, Germany), Emmanouil Sifalakis (Nijmegen, Netherlands) and Zhuangzhuang Yu (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a cross-sectional width of an artery comprises: receiving a time sequence of sets of ultrasound data, each set representing reflection of ultrasound along a line extending through tissue including the artery at a single point in time in the time sequence...