ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,696, issued on June 10, was assigned to Cleerly Inc. (Denver).

"Systems, devices, and methods for non-invasive image-based plaque analysis and risk determination" was invented by James K. Min (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Tami Crabtree (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein relate to systems, devices, and methods for non-invasive image-based plaque analysis and risk determination. In particular, in some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are related to analysis of one or more regions of plaque, such as for example coronary plaque, using non-invasively obtained im...