US Patent Issued to FEMDX MEDSYSTEMS on June 3 for "Combined ultrasonic and direct visual hysteroscope" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,252, issued on June 3, was assigned to FEMDX MEDSYSTEMS INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Combined ultrasonic and direct visual hysteroscope" was invented by Pei-Jie Cao (Newark, Calif.), Albert K. Chin (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Xi Francis (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interventional hysteroscope includes a cannula, an optical imaging element, an ultrasonic imaging element and a treatment element, such as an ablation needle. The cannula has a distal end, a proximal end, and a longitudinal axis therebetween, and the optical imaging element is disposed at the distal end of the cannula. The ultrasonic imaging element is a...