ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,956, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Chengdu Panovision Technology Co. LTD. (Sichuan, China).

"Method and system of calculating the cross-section area and included angle of three-dimensional blood vessel branch" was invented by Jingqi Mao (Sichuan, China), Zhao Wang (Sichuan, China), Xi Chen (Sichuan, China) and Nan Huang (Sichuan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are method and system of calculating cross-section area and included angle of three-dimensional blood vessel branch, comprising: obtaining the contours of a main blood vessel and a branch blood vessel; determining connecting points of the main blood vessel and...