ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,365, issued on Sept. 2, 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.), James P. Earls (Alexandria, Va.), Shant Malkasian (Pasadena, Calif.), Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques (Lisbon, Portugal), Chung Chan (Northbrook, Ill.) and Shai Ronen (Westminster, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of facilitating determination of risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) based at least in part on one or more measurements derived from non-invasive medical image analysis. The methods can incl...