US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on May 12 for "Standard blood vessel generation device, blood vessel evaluation device, standard blood vessel generation program, blood vessel evaluation program, standard blood vessel generation method, and blood vessel evaluation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,663, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Standard blood vessel generation device, blood vessel evaluation device, standard blood vessel generation program, blood vessel evaluation program, standard blood vessel generation method, and blood vessel evaluation method" was invented by Hitomi Anzai (Sendai, Japan), Ko Kitamura (Sendai, Japan), Shunji Mugikura (Sendai, Japan), Naoko Mori (Sendai, Japan) and Makoto Ohta (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A standard blood vessel generation device specifies, for each subject, a blood vessel region in which a blood vessel is depicted in an image, der...