ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,328, issued on April 29, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).
"Blood flow field estimation apparatus, learning apparatus, blood flow field estimation method, and program" was invented by Hitomi Anzai (Sendai, Japan), Kazuhiro Watanabe (Sendai, Japan), Gaoyang Li (Sendai, Japan), Makoto Ohta (Sendai, Japan), Teiji Tominaga (Sendai, Japan), Kuniyasu Niizuma (Sendai, Japan) and Shinichiro Sugiyama (Sendai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood flow field estimation apparatus is provided, including an estimation unit that uses a learned model obtained in advance by performing machine learning to learn a relationship b...