ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,559, issued on July 15, was assigned to Medipixel Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and system for computing blood flow velocity based on medical image" was invented by Hyunwoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sooncheol Noh (Seoul, South Korea) and Si-Hyuck Kang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises receiving a user input to select a first point and a second point from a medical image, extracting a plurality of blood vessel regions from a plurality of frame images of the medical image, determining a plurality of first regions associated with the first point and a plurality of second regions associated with t...