US Patent Issued to Canon U.S.A. on March 4 for "Image processing to determine longitudinal orientation and generate tomographic and longitudinal views" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,420, issued on March 4, was assigned to Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Image processing to determine longitudinal orientation and generate tomographic and longitudinal views" was invented by Daisuke Yamada (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for intravascular image processing carries out steps of acquiring intravascular data of a portion of a lumen, determining a region of interest based on characteristics of the acquired data, determining an angle (orientation) for displaying an initial longitudinal view of the portion of the lumen based on the determined region of interest, and displaying the initial lon...