US Patent Issued to TERUMO on June 23 for "Program for determining direction of interest in intravascular ultrasound medical imaging" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,681, issued on June 23, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Program for determining direction of interest in intravascular ultrasound medical imaging" was invented by Kohtaroh Kusu (Ebina, Japan) and Yuki Sakaguchi (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The program causes a computer to execute processing of: acquiring a medical image obtained by imaging a luminal organ using a catheter; specifying a direction of interest indicating a direction of a site of interest with respect to the medical image on the basis of the acquired medical image; and displaying information indicating the specified direction of interest in assoc...