US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Jan. 20 for "Predicting vessel compliance responsive to multiple potential treatments" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,478, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Predicting vessel compliance responsive to multiple potential treatments" was invented by Daniel Frank Massimini (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Andrew David Bicek (Elk River, Minn.) and Wenguang Li (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides apparatus and methods to both infer stent expansion (vessel expansion or compliance) and probability of procedural success (vessel patency) from pretreatment diagnostic imaging at the point-of-care and also train an inference model to generate such an inference, thus allowin...