US Patent Issued to MEDI WHALE on March 18 for "Diagnosis assistance method and cardiovascular disease diagnosis assistance method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,985, issued on March 18, was assigned to MEDI WHALE INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Diagnosis assistance method and cardiovascular disease diagnosis assistance method" was invented by Tae Geun Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Geun Yeong Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyung Taek Rim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of assisting in diagnosis of a target heart disease using a retinal image, the method including: obtaining a target retinal image which is obtained by imaging a retina of a testee; on the basis of the target retinal image, obtaining heart disease diagnosis assistance informat...