ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,966, issued on March 31, was assigned to THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF KOREA INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for analyzing blood vessel based on machine learning model" was invented by Namkug Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Keewon Shin (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Dae-Won Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for analyzing a blood vessel includes a processor configured to detect a blood vessel area corresponding to the blood vessel and a stenosis area corresponding to a stenosed portion of the blood vessel, based on a machine learning model, from a blood v...