ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,969, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ELEM BIOTECH S.L. (Barcelona, Spain).

"Computational models for 3D muscular electrophysiology and electromechanics simulation" was invented by Jazmin Aguado-Sierra (Barcelona, Spain), Kostantyn Butakov (Barcelona, Spain) and Mariano Vazquez (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-generated, three-dimensional a heart model established with an electromechanical aspect and an electrophysiological aspect. The model may include tissue types and associated cell models comprising a system of ordinary differential equations describing properties for that tissue type, at least descri...