ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,038, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION LTD. (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Image-based diagnostic systems" was invented by Ross Upton (Oxford, Great Britain) and Paul Leeson (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for diagnosing a heart condition comprises an imaging system (102) arranged to acquire two images of the heart at respective points in the cardiac cycle, and locating means, which may be manually operated or automatic, for locating a series of pairs of points on the images. Each pair of points indicates the respective positions of a single part of the heart in the two images. ...