ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,866, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Dynamic vessel roadmapping" was invented by Anamaria Vizitiu (Covasna, Romania), Venkatesh Narasimha Murthy (Hillsborough, N.J.), Klaus Kirchberg (Plainsboro, N.J.), Walid Bekhtaoui (Lawrenceville, N.J.) and Rui Liao (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a computer-implemented dynamic vessel roadmapping method. The method comprises generating a vessel roadmap library, the vessel roadmap library including a plurality of vessel roadmaps, wherein each vessel roadmap comprises vessel roadmap image a...