ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,227, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Determining a clinical parameter via evaluation of sequential medical images" was invented by Kartik Mangudi Varadarajan (Acton, Mass.), Alireza Borjali (Somerville, Mass.) and Orhun K. Muratoglu (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for determining a clinical parameter via evaluation of sequential medical images. A sequence of at least three medical images for a patient are captured at a scanner. A set of at least two difference images are generated from the sequence of at least three medical images. Each differe...