US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for vascular image co-registration" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,974, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for vascular image co-registration" was invented by Kevin Bloms (Minneapolis), Wenguang Li (Los Gatos, Calif.), Hatice Cinar Akakin (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Alexander Shang (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural network is trained for estimating patient hemodynamic data using a plurality of extravascular imaging data sets and a plurality of intravascular imaging data sets that are each co-registered to a corresponding extravascular imaging data set. A plurality of hemodynamic data sets are provided, each hem...