Patents Assigned to Cleerly, Inc.
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Patent number: 12635965Abstract: Various embodiments described herein relate to systems, devices, and methods for non-invasive image-based plaque analysis and risk determination. In particular, in some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are related to analysis of one or more regions of plaque, such as for example coronary plaque, using non-invasively obtained images that can be analyzed using computer vision or machine learning to identify, diagnose, characterize, treat and/or track coronary artery disease.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2024Date of Patent: May 26, 2026Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls
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Patent number: 12620092Abstract: Systems and methods of facilitating determination of risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) based at least in part on one or more measurements derived from non-invasive medical image analysis. The methods can include accessing a non-invasive generated medical image, identifying one or more arteries, identifying, regions of plaque within an artery, analyzing the regions of plaque to identify low density non-calcified plaque, non-calcified plaque, or calcified plaque based at least in part on density, determining a distance from identified regions of low density non-calcified plaque to one or more of a lumen wall or vessel wall, determining embeddedness of the regions of low density non-calcified plaque by one or more of non-calcified plaque or calcified plaque, determining a shape of the more regions of low density non-calcified plaque, and generating a display of the analysis to facilitate determination of one or more of a risk of CAD of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2023Date of Patent: May 5, 2026Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Shant Malkasian, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Chung Chan, Shai Ronen
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Patent number: 12599352Abstract: Various embodiments described herein relate to systems, devices, and methods for non-invasive image-based plaque analysis and risk determination. In particular, in some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are related to analysis of one or more regions of plaque, such as for example coronary plaque, using non-invasively obtained images that can be analyzed using computer vision or machine learning to identify, diagnose, characterize, treat and/or track coronary artery disease.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2024Date of Patent: April 14, 2026Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls
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Publication number: 20260060629Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2025Publication date: March 5, 2026Applicant: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
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Patent number: 12558048Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2023Date of Patent: February 24, 2026Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Ben Hootnick
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Patent number: 12555228Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, perform computational fluid dynamics analysis, facilitate assessment of risk of heart disease and coronary artery disease, enhance drug development, determine a CAD risk factor goal, provide atherosclerosis and vascular morphology characterization, and determine indication of myocardial risk, and/or the like.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: February 17, 2026Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Shant Malkasian, Ben Hootnick
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Publication number: 20260041390Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2025Publication date: February 12, 2026Applicant: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
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Publication number: 20260033795Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2025Publication date: February 5, 2026Applicant: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
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Patent number: 12499539Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, perform computational fluid dynamics analysis, facilitate assessment of risk of heart disease and coronary artery disease, enhance drug development, determine a CAD risk factor goal, provide atherosclerosis and vascular morphology characterization, and determine indication of myocardial risk, and/or the like.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: December 16, 2025Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Shant Malkasian, Ben Hootnick
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Publication number: 20250345019Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2025Publication date: November 13, 2025Applicant: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
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Publication number: 20250336068Abstract: Systems and methods of facilitating determination of risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) based at least in part on one or more measurements derived from non-invasive medical image analysis. The methods can include accessing a non-invasive generated medical image, identifying one or more arteries, identifying, regions of plaque within an artery, analyzing the regions of plaque to identify low density non-calcified plaque, non-calcified plaque, or calcified plaque based at least in part on density, determining a distance from identified regions of low density non-calcified plaque to one or more of a lumen wall or vessel wall, determining embeddedness of the regions of low density non-calcified plaque by one or more of non-calcified plaque or calcified plaque, determining a shape of the more regions of low density non-calcified plaque, and generating a display of the analysis to facilitate determination of one or more of a risk of CAD of the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2025Publication date: October 30, 2025Applicant: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Shant Malkasian, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Chung Chan, Shai Ronen
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Patent number: 12440180Abstract: Various embodiments described herein relate to systems, devices, and methods for non-invasive image-based plaque analysis and risk determination. In particular, in some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are related to analysis of one or more regions of plaque, such as for example coronary plaque, using non-invasively obtained images that can be analyzed using computer vision or machine learning to identify, diagnose, characterize, treat and/or track coronary artery disease.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2024Date of Patent: October 14, 2025Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
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Publication number: 20250311991Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2025Publication date: October 9, 2025Applicant: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
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Publication number: 20250281135Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2025Publication date: September 11, 2025Applicant: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Ben Hootnick
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Patent number: 12406365Abstract: Systems and methods of facilitating determination of risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) based at least in part on one or more measurements derived from non-invasive medical image analysis. The methods can include accessing a non-invasive generated medical image, identifying one or more arteries, identifying, regions of plaque within an artery, analyzing the regions of plaque to identify low density non-calcified plaque, non-calcified plaque, or calcified plaque based at least in part on density, determining a distance from identified regions of low density non-calcified plaque to one or more of a lumen wall or vessel wall, determining embeddedness of the regions of low density non-calcified plaque by one or more of non-calcified plaque or calcified plaque, determining a shape of the more regions of low density non-calcified plaque, and generating a display of the analysis to facilitate determination of one or more of a risk of CAD of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2023Date of Patent: September 2, 2025Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Shant Malkasian, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Chung Chan, Shai Ronen
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Patent number: 12396695Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2024Date of Patent: August 26, 2025Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
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Patent number: 12380560Abstract: This application is directed to systems, methods, and devices for image based analysis of plaque. In some embodiments, the approaches herein can be used for developing treatment plans, which can include local treatment, systemic treatment, or both. In some embodiments, the approaches herein can be used for stent selection. In some embodiments, the approaches herein can be used for surgical planning, which can include robotic surgical planning. In some embodiments, the approaches herein can be used for image normalization. In some embodiments, the approaches herein can be used for identifying plaque calcification thresholds. In some embodiments, the approaches herein can be used for identifying thin cap fibroatheroma. In some embodiments, the approaches herein can be used for coronary artery tree reconstruction. Some embodiments are directed to coronary artery disease risk stratification.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2024Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.Inventor: James K. Min
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Patent number: 12324695Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
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Patent number: 12324696Abstract: Various embodiments described herein relate to systems, devices, and methods for non-invasive image-based plaque analysis and risk determination. In particular, in some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are related to analysis of one or more regions of plaque, such as for example coronary plaque, using non-invasively obtained images that can be analyzed using computer vision or machine learning to identify, diagnose, characterize, treat and/or track coronary artery disease.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2024Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, Tami Crabtree
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Patent number: 12299885Abstract: Systems and methods of facilitating determination of risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) based at least in part on one or more measurements derived from non-invasive medical image analysis. The methods can include accessing a non-invasive generated medical image, identifying one or more arteries, identifying, regions of plaque within an artery, analyzing the regions of plaque to identify low density non-calcified plaque, non-calcified plaque, or calcified plaque based at least in part on density, determining a distance from identified regions of low density non-calcified plaque to one or more of a lumen wall or vessel wall, determining embeddedness of the regions of low density non-calcified plaque by one or more of non-calcified plaque or calcified plaque, determining a shape of the more regions of low density non-calcified plaque, and generating a display of the analysis to facilitate determination of one or more of a risk of CAD of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2023Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Shant Malkasian, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Chung Chan, Shai Ronen