ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,858, issued on June 24, was assigned to HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTRE (Chennai, India) and INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS (IIT MADRAS) (Chennai, India).

"Methods for identifying the boundaries of a blood vessel" was invented by Jayaraj Joseph (Chennai, India), Raj Kiran Vangapandu (Chennai, India), Nabeel Pilaparambil Mashood (Chennai, India) and Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a vessel-wall-monitoring device (100) and a method for identifying the walls of blood vessel in a body. The method includes receiving, by the vessel...