ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,666, issued on May 20, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for predicting post-operative right ventricular failure using echocardiograms" was invented by Rohan Shad Arora (Stanford, Calif.), William Hiesinger (Stanford, Calif.) and Nicolas Tung-Da Quach (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for incorporating machine learning to predict post operative right ventricular failure using echocardiograms are described. In an embodiment, the system obtains echocardiography video data describing a patient's heart, generates sever...