ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,434, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Vektor Group Inc. (San Diego).

"Augmentation of images with source locations" was invented by Christopher Villongco (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are provided for generating data representing electromagnetic states of a heart for medical, scientific, research, and/or engineering purposes. The systems generate the data based on source configurations such as dimensions of, and scar or fibrosis or pro-arrhythmic substrate location within, a heart and a computational model of the electromagnetic output of the heart. The systems may dynamically generate the source conf...