US Patent Issued to Heartflow on June 17 for "Systems and methods for processing electronic images to assess end-organ demand" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,462, issued on June 17, was assigned to Heartflow Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for processing electronic images to assess end-organ demand" was invented by Charles A. Taylor (Atherton, Calif.), Hyun Jin Kim (San Mateo, Calif.), Sophie Khem (San Francisco), Sethuraman Sankaran (Palo Alto, Calif.), David Spain (Portland, Ore.) and Nan Xiao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for to determining a blood supply and blood demand. One method includes receiving a patient-specific model of vessel geometry of at least a portion of a coronary artery, wherein the model is based...