US Patent Issued to LightLab Imaging on July 15 for "Systems and methods for an automatic pullback trigger" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,414, issued on July 15, was assigned to LightLab Imaging Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for an automatic pullback trigger" was invented by Christopher E. Griffin (Wilton, N.H.), Joel M. Friedman (Andover, Mass.), Ashley Netravali (Littleton, Mass.) and Lingfa Yang (Concord, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to the identification of when a blood vessel has been sufficiently cleared of blood so as to capture intravascular images of the vessel wall. The disclosed systems and methods allow for the identification of an initial and a final blood clearing based on the identification of edges...