US Patent Issued to ARTEDRONE on March 25 for "Method and system for determining properties in a vessel" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,040, issued on March 25, was assigned to ARTEDRONE (Paris).

"Method and system for determining properties in a vessel" was invented by Philippe Pouletty (Paris) and Maelle Bruneau (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a method of determining properties in a vessel or the heart (V) of a patient. It comprises the steps of placing an element in a vessel or the heart(V) and determining a propulsion force (2) acting on the element. Furthermore, at least one of acceleration (3) and velocity (4) of the element is determined. At least one property of a neighbouring medium of the element is determined based on th...