ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,340, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for pulmonary perfusion analysis using dynamic radiography" was invented by Matthew Smith (Nashville, Tenn.), Gary T. Smith (Nashville, Tenn.) and Jared Grice (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable medium for detecting a perfusion abnormality of a subject. In one embodiment, a method includes the following: obtaining, by dynamic radiography, imaging data for a dynamic series of a plurality of x-ray images that include areas of a subject corresponding to pulmonary...