ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,974, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cephea Valve Technologies Inc. (Abbott Park, Ill.).
"Intravascular device positioning system" was invented by Murrad Kazalbash (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Austin Sherman (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for positioning an intravascular device. A sensing device includes a plurality of nodes disposed on a distal portion of the sensing device. The distal portion of the sensing device is inserted into a circumflex artery. A plurality of node locations of the plurality of nodes are determined in a coordinate system when the distal portion of the sensin...