US Patent Issued to ComKardia on Sept. 9 for "Artificial intelligence-based real-time planning and optimization of percutaneous coronary interventions" (American, Greek, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,995, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ComKardia Inc. (Newton, Mass.).

"Artificial intelligence-based real-time planning and optimization of percutaneous coronary interventions" was invented by Ioannis S. Chatzizisis (Sunny Isles, Fla.), Evangelia I. Zacharaki (Patras, Greece), Kaiming Li (Riverside, Calif.) and Praveen Ravichandran (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed herein provide a method for real-time PCI guidance. A method comprises receiving one or more images of a blood vessel from an imaging modality system, the blood vessel having a lumen, a lumen surface, and a wall; building a 3D model of...