ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,837, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).
"Range finder for OCT luminal clearance" was invented by Christopher Douglas Brushett (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an apparatus and method for finding a range of lumen clearance, including positioning an imaging probe in a lumen such that the probe tip is positioned to irradiate a target area; acquiring a first set of images of an inside of the lumen while performing a non-flush pullback operation with the probe; analyzing the first set of images to determine a location of the probe tip with respect to a guide catheter; calc...