ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,110, issued on May 20, was assigned to Heartflow Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for processing electronic images to determine a planar mapping" was invented by Rhea Tombropoulos (Woodside, Calif.), Gregory R. Hart (Hayden, Idaho), Kathy Yuen (Brisbane, Calif.), Joshua Callebaut (Redwood City, Calif.), John Tran (Austin, Texas), Jonathan Tang (Redwood City, Calif.) and Nrupesh Patel (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for subject-specific two-dimensional modeling of a subject's vasculature may comprise: receiving a subject-specific three-dimensional model of the subject's ...