US Patent Issued on Feb. 3 for "Methods, systems and related aspects for optimization and planning of cardiac surgery" (Maryland, Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,172, issued on Feb. 3.

"Methods, systems and related aspects for optimization and planning of cardiac surgery" was invented by Byeol Kim (College Park, Md.), Xiaolong Liu (College Park, Md.), Axel Krieger (Alexandria, Va.), Mark D. Fuge (College Park, Md.), Phong Danh Nguyen (College Park, Md.), Rachel Hess (College Park, Md.), Pratham Vijay Nar (College Park, Md.), Laura Olivieri (Washington), Narutoshi Hibino (Baltimore), Yue-Hin Loke (Washington), Paige Mass (Washington) and Seda Aslan (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of generating optimized models of vascular grafts for subjects in certain embo...