US Patent Issued to Heartflow on Aug. 19 for "Systems and methods of processing images to determine patient-specific plaque progression based on the processed images" (California, Connecticut, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,274, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Heartflow Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of processing images to determine patient-specific plaque progression based on the processed images" was invented by Sethuraman Sankaran (Palo Alto, Calif.), Charles A. Taylor (Atherton, Calif.), Gilwoo Choi (Mountain View, Calif.), Michiel Schaap (Redwood City, Calif.), Christopher K. Zarins (Austin, Texas) and Leo Grady (Darien, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for evaluating a patient with vascular disease. One method includes receiving patient-specific data regarding a geometry of the patient'...