US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on May 20 for "Devices and methods for determining blood flow around a body lumen" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,243, issued on May 20, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Devices and methods for determining blood flow around a body lumen" was invented by George Wilfred Duval (Sudbury, Mass.), Michael Y. Ko (Waltham, Mass.), James Weldon (Newton, Mass.) and Namita M. Kallur (Hayward, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include an expandable member, and a plurality of sensors disposed on an outer surface of the expandable member and circumferentially spaced apart from one another, wherein each of the plurality of sensors includes a first emitter configured to emit light of a first wavelength, and a...