US Patent Issued to Canon U.S.A. on Feb. 3 for "System and method for identifying potential false positive and blind spot locations in catheter-based multimodal images" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,843, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"System and method for identifying potential false positive and blind spot locations in catheter-based multimodal images" was invented by Mie Kunio (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer-readable media configured to process image data for detecting blind spot locations in multimodality images acquired by an imaging catheter. The method comprises: acquiring a multimodality image of a blood vessel, the multimodality image includes first image data co-registered with second image data collected simultaneously by scanning an ...