ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,813, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QFR SOLUTIONS B.V. (Leiden, Netherlands).

"Method and device for monitoring a flow of a fluid in a vessel" was invented by Catalina Tobon Gomez (Haarlem, Netherlands), Hua Ma (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Johannes Petrus Janssen (Leiden, Netherlands), Gianni Pedrizzetti (Florence, Italy), Johan Hendrikus Christiaan Reiber (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Yves Robert Vijgeboom (Geleen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for monitoring a flow of a fluid in a vessel of a body of a living being is provided. The method comprises obtaining a first image data set representing the ve...