US Patent Issued to LightLab Imaging on April 15 for "Lumen morphology and vascular resistance measurements data collection systems apparatus and methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,532, issued on April 15, was assigned to LightLab Imaging Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Lumen morphology and vascular resistance measurements data collection systems apparatus and methods" was invented by Joseph M. Schmitt (Andover, Mass.), Joel M. Friedman (Andover, Mass.), Christopher Petroff (Groton, Mass.) and Amr Elbasiony (Chelmsford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus of automatically locating in an image of a blood vessel the lumen boundary at a position in the vessel and from that measuring the diameter of the vessel. From the diameter of the vessel and estimated blood flow rate, a number of clinically sig...