ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,018, issued on July 8, was assigned to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY Corp. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for diagnosing coronary microvascular disease" was invented by Donna Collins (San Diego), Mary Lynne Gaddis (San Diego), Nathaniel J. Kemp (Concord, Mass.) and Bernhard Sturm (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides systems and methods for assessing the vasculature of a subject. In certain aspects, systems and methods of the invention involve receiving functional flow data of a subject via a data collector co-located with a radiopaque label, receiving imaging data of the vasculature including the radi...