US Patent Issued to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION, NEW COS on Nov. 4 for "System and method for model-based stent design and placement" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,379, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (Cleveland) and NEW COS INC. (Cleveland).

"System and method for model-based stent design and placement" was invented by Thomas Gildea (Cleveland) and Keith Grafmeyer (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for designing a stent for placement within an airway of a patient. Computer executable instructions are executable by a processor to provide an image segmenter, a graphic user interface, and a model generator. The image segmenter segments at least one image of a region of interest to provide a three-dimensional airway model rep...