US Patent Issued to General Electric on March 18 for "System and method for evaluating blood flow in a vessel" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,202, issued on March 18, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"System and method for evaluating blood flow in a vessel" was invented by Adrian F. Warner (Delafield, Wis.), Daniel R. Schneidewend (Menomonee Falls, Wis.), Daniel J. Nowicki (Cedarburg, Wis.) and Joel Q. Xue (Brown Deer, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for evaluating blood flow in a vessel of a patient includes a catheter containing a first pressure sensor and a second pressure sensor and configured to simultaneously measure pressure data within a vessel on either side of a stenosis. Pressure data generated by the catheter in...