US Patent Issued to University of Iowa Research Foundation, United States Government as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs on July 29 for "Automated determination of arteriovenous ratio in images of blood vessels" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,793, issued on July 29, was assigned to University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa) and United States Government as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington).

"Automated determination of arteriovenous ratio in images of blood vessels" was invented by Michael D. Abramoff (University Heights, Iowa), Meindert Niemeijer (Iowa City, Iowa), Xiayu Xu (Iowa City, Iowa), Milan Sonka (Coralville, Iowa) and Joseph M. Reinhardt (Iowa City, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The methods and systems provided can automatically determine an Arteriolar-to-Venular diameter Ratio, AVR, in blood vessels, such as retina...