Patents by Inventor James K. Min

James K. Min has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11779292
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Ben Hootnick
  • Patent number: 11766229
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: CLEERLY, INC.
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
  • Patent number: 11766230
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: CLEERLY, INC.
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
  • Patent number: 11759161
    Abstract: A method for characterization of coronary plaque tissue data and perivascular tissue data using image data gathered from a computed tomography (CT) scan along a blood vessel, the image information including radiodensity values of coronary plaque and perivascular tissue located adjacent to the coronary plaque, the method comprising quantifying radiodensity in regions of coronary plaque, quantifying, radiodensity in at least one region of corresponding perivascular tissue adjacent to the coronary plaque, determining gradients of the quantified radiodensity values within the coronary plaque and the quantified radiodensity values within the corresponding perivascular tissue, and determining a ratio of the quantified radiodensity values within the coronary plaque and the corresponding perivascular tissue; and characterizing the coronary plaque by analyzing a gradient of the quantified radiodensity values in the coronary plaque and the corresponding perivascular, and/or the ratio of the coronary plaque radiodensity
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.
    Inventor: James K. Min
  • Publication number: 20230289963
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Shant Malkasian, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Chung Chan, Shai Ronen
  • Patent number: 11751830
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: CLEERLY, INC.
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
  • Patent number: 11751826
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: CLEERLY, INC.
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Ben Hootnick
  • Patent number: 11751829
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: CLEERLY, INC.
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
  • Patent number: 11751831
    Abstract: A method for characterization of coronary plaque tissue data and perivascular tissue data using image data gathered from a computed tomography (CT) scan along a blood vessel, the image information including radiodensity values of coronary plaque and perivascular tissue located adjacent to the coronary plaque, the method comprising quantifying radiodensity in regions of coronary plaque, quantifying, radiodensity in at least one region of corresponding perivascular tissue adjacent to the coronary plaque, determining gradients of the quantified radiodensity values within the coronary plaque and the quantified radiodensity values within the corresponding perivascular tissue, and determining a ratio of the quantified radiodensity values within the coronary plaque and the corresponding perivascular tissue; and characterizing the coronary plaque by analyzing a gradient of the quantified radiodensity values in the coronary plaque and the corresponding perivascular, and/or the ratio of the coronary plaque radiodensity
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.
    Inventor: James K. Min
  • Patent number: 11737718
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: CLEERLY, INC.
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
  • Patent number: 11730437
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
  • Publication number: 20230237654
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Shant Malkasian, Ben Hootnick
  • Patent number: 11690586
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: CLEERLY, INC.
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Ben Hootnick
  • Patent number: 11690633
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a device that can be implanted into the left atrial appendage for occlusion. The device can prevent or reduce thrombus formation in this anatomic region for patients with atrial fibrillation. This device includes a patient-specific inflatable device that represents a patient's anatomy or morphological class. The inflatable device can be designed by imaging (e.g., computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging) the patient's anatomy. Through a catheter (or surgically), the inflatable device can be filled with an inflation fluid to occlude the appendage in a patient-specific fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: CORNELL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: James K. Min, Simon Dunham, Bobak Mosadegh, Sanlin S. Robinson
  • Patent number: 11672497
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: CLEERLY. INC.
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
  • Patent number: 11660058
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: CLEERLY, INC.
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
  • Publication number: 20230154000
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Shant Malkasian, Ben Hootnick
  • Publication number: 20230148981
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Ben Hootnick
  • Publication number: 20230147995
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques, Shant Malkasian, Ben Hootnick
  • Publication number: 20230142747
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: James K. MIN, James P. EARLS, Hugo Miguel RODRIGUES MARQUES