US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on May 27 for "Systems and methods for quantifying vessel features in ultrasound doppler images" (Minnesota, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,141, issued on May 27, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for quantifying vessel features in ultrasound doppler images" was invented by Azra Alizad (Rochester, Minn.), Mahdi Bayad (Cleveland), Mostafa Fatemi (Rochester, Minn.) and Seyed Siavash Ghavami Roudsari (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described here are systems and methods for quantifying vessel features in non-contrast microvasculature images obtained with an ultrasound imaging system. Vessel features that are quantified include, but are not limited to, vessel structure features (e.g., ...