ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,238, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to WASEDA UNIVERSITY (Tokyo).
"Ischemic cardiopathy diagnosis assistance system" was invented by Masafumi Nakayama (Tokyo) and Kiyotaka Iwasaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ischemic cardiopathy diagnosis assistance system includes pressure data acquisition means 11 for acquiring pressure data including proximal pressure Pa in a proximal stenotic segment A1 and distal pressure Pd in a distal stenotic segment A2; intracoronary electrocardiogram data acquisition means 12 for acquiring intracoronary electrocardiogram data made up of a local intracoronary artery electrocardiogram in a neighbo...