ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,700, issued on May 13, was assigned to Heartflow Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for estimation of blood flow characteristics using reduced order model and/or machine learning" was invented by Travis Michael Sanders (Plano, Texas), Sethuraman Sankaran (Palo Alto, Calif.), Leo Grady (Darien, Conn.), David Spain (Portland, Ore.), Nan Xiao (San Jose, Calif.), Jin Kim (Daly City, Calif.) and Charles A. Taylor (Atherton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for determining blood flow characteristics of a patient. One method includes: receiving, in an electronic storage medium, patient-...