US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California et al. on March 25 for "Mapping and quantifying shear stress and hemolysis in patients" (Spanish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,072, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California et al. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Mapping and quantifying shear stress and hemolysis in patients" was invented by Juan Carlos del Alamo de Pedro (San Diego), Lorenzo Rossini (San Diego), Andrew Kahn (San Diego), Javier Bermejo (Madrid), Pablo Martinez-Legazpi (Madrid) and Raquel Yotti Alvarez (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for in-vivo assessment of intraventricular flow shear stress, risk of hemolysis, also the location and extent of blood flow stasis regions and inside a cardiac chamber or blood vessel. Also provided he...