US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Oct. 14 for "Analysis tool for performing patient-specific analysis of flows through flexible tubular organs" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,162, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Analysis tool for performing patient-specific analysis of flows through flexible tubular organs" was invented by John Erik Pandolfino (Wilmette, Ill.), Neelesh Ashok Patankar (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Sourav Halder (Evanston, Ill.), Shashank Acharya (Evanston, Ill.) and Peter James Kahrilas (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flow through tubular organs (e.g., the esophagus) is analyzed based on fluid mechanics analysis of medical images. Using computational fluid dynamics, a reduced-order model is constructed and implemented to predict flow rate and ...