US Patent Issued to Covidien on Oct. 14 for "Circumferentially sensing manometry systems and methods with catheter utilizing pressure sensitive mems" (California, Tennessee, Arizona, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,116, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Circumferentially sensing manometry systems and methods with catheter utilizing pressure sensitive mems" was invented by Benjamin J. Pagliuso (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), Ali S. Ghaderi (Hawthorne, Calif.), Salim M. Motiwala (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Sergiy P. Kanilo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jeffrey T. Sawyer (Lakewood, Colo.), Robert G. Carruthers (Columbia, Tenn.), Mark A. Maguire (Hillsborough, Calif.), Monika P. Marciniak (Inglewood, Calif.) and Sebastian E. Arevalo (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manometric catheter probe includes a flexible print...