ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,704, issued on April 15.

"Methods and systems for predicting complications post-endovascular aneurysm repair" was invented by Yanyu Long (Saginaw, Mich.) and John Blebea (Saginaw, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for predicting post-operative complications after EVAR, including calculating a post-operative complication probability of a patient after EVAR, which comprises generating a plurality of 3D CTA reconstruction images of the patient with abdominal aortic aneurysm; and providing the plurality of 3D CTA reconstruction images of the patient to a prediction neural network configured to predict post-operative...