ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,337, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Kardiolytics Inc. (Tulsa, Okla.).

"Autonomous segmentation of contrast filled coronary artery vessels on computed tomography images" was invented by Kris Siemionow (Chicago), Marek Kraft (Poznan, Poland), Dominik Pieczynski (Tulce, Poland), Paul Lewicki (Tulsa, Okla.), Zbigniew Malota (Zabrze, Poland), Wojciech Sadowski (Zabrze, Poland) and Jacek Kania (Rogozno, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for autonomous segmentation of contrast-filled coronary artery vessels includes receiving a CT scan volume representing a 3D volume of a region of anatomy that includes...