US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Oct. 7 for "System and method for location insensitive reporting of fractional flow reserve-computed tomography for a given stenosis" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,399, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"System and method for location insensitive reporting of fractional flow reserve-computed tomography for a given stenosis" was invented by Prem Venugopal (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes identifying stenosed region within vessel in vascular image data and generating a revascularized model of the vessel based on the vascular image data with a lumen boundary in the stenosed region adjusted to have a same cross-sectional area as healthy sections of the vessel. The method includes determining a first pressure distribut...