ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,463, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Fluidda Respi NV (Kontich, Belgium).

"Method for dimensional measurement of a vessel" was invented by Jan De Backer (Atlanta), Stijn Bonte (Ghent, Belgium) and Maarten Lanclus (Vremde, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dimensional measurement of a vessel (100) of a subject that is a bodily fluid-conducting vessel comprising: receiving image data comprising a three-dimensional medical image containing the vessel; obtaining from the image data an image patch (130) that is a two-dimensional image containing a transverse cross-section of the vessel (100); generating from the image p...