US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 17 for "Analysis and display of functional lumen imaging probe (FLIP) data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,159, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Analysis and display of functional lumen imaging probe (FLIP) data" was invented by Ali Zifan (La Jolla, Calif.) and Ravinder K. Mittal (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for analyzing and displaying functional lumen imaging probe (FLIP) measurement data includes receiving FLIP measurement data. A heatmap or topograph of the measurement data is generated and displayed to thereby create an image of a diameter along the lumen. The image is segmented to display only diameters of the lumen within a range of diame...