ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,076, issued on May 27, was assigned to CathWorks Ltd. (Kfar Saba, Israel).

"Four-dimensional motion analysis of a patient's coronary arteries and myocardial wall" was invented by Gil Farkash (Kfar Saba, Israel), Ifat Lavi (Moshav Mishmeret, Israel) and Guy Lavi (Moshav Mishmeret, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for four-dimensional analysis of a patient's coronary arteries and myocardial wall. An example method includes accessing angiographic x-ray images of one or more arteries, with the x-ray images depicting the arteries from respective angles, with each x-ray image being associated with a cardiac phase o...