ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,513, issued on July 28, was assigned to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (Cleveland).
"Automated identification of vascular pathology in computed tomography images" was invented by Paul Schoenhagen (Cleveland), Po-Hao Chen (Cleveland), Kunio Nakamura (Cleveland) and Nancy Obuchowski (Cleveland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for automated identification of vascular pathology in computed tomography images. A region of interest in a chest of a patient is imaged via a computed tomography scanner to provide an image. The region of interest includes at least one of the ascending aorta, the central pulmonary ...