ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,051, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Methods and systems for vascular image processing" was invented by Yufei Mao (Shanghai), Xiong Yang (Shanghai), Zhenhuan Gong (Shanghai) and Saisai Su (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for vascular image processing. The method may include obtaining an initial vascular image, generating a vascular fragment image by performing a vascular fragmentation operation on the initial vascular image, and generating, based on the vascular fragment image, a vascular centerline image."

The p...