ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,444, issued on July 22, was assigned to VELMENI INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for automated analysis of airway imaging" was invented by Mini Suri (Orlando, Fla.), Mohammed El Amine Mokhtari (Mons, Belgium), Alan Friedel (Hollywood, Fla.), Prashant P. Jaju (Bhopal, India), Maxine Feinberg (Westfield, N.J.), Nodesh Shyamsunder (Jacksonville, Fla.), Elias Ennadifi (Mons, Belgium) and Marcus Prummer (Pegnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automated image analysis includes an imaging device configured to capture input data of a patient, a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory h...