ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,780, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LightLab Imaging Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Arterial imaging and assessment systems and methods and related user interface based-workflows" was invented by Ajay Gopinath (Bedford, Mass.) and Mark Hoeveler (Eliot, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In part, the disclosure relates to method of displaying a representation of an artery. The method may include storing an intravascular image dataset in a memory device of a diagnostic imaging system, the intravascular image dataset generated in response to intravascular imaging of a segment of an artery; automatically detecting lumen boundary of the s...