ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,017, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Heartflow Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for numerically evaluating vasculature" was invented by Timothy A. Fonte (San Francisco), Gilwoo Choi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jonathan Tang (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a cardiovascular score for a patient. A method includes receiving, using at least one computer system, patient-specific data regarding a geometry of multiple coronary arteries of the patient; and creating, using at least one computer system, a three-dimensional model representing at least porti...