ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,240, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GENERAL HOSPITAL OF PLA NORTHERN THEATER COMMAND (Shenyang, China).

"Ambulance-type mobile catheter room for cardiovascular interventional surgery" was invented by Yaling Han (Shenyang, China), Jingyang Sun (Shenyang, China), Ming Liang (Shenyang, China), Xiaozeng Wang (Shenyang, China), Yang Li (Shenyang, China), Dan Liu (Shenyang, China) and Fei Li (Shenyang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ambulance-type mobile catheter room for cardiovascular interventional surgery enables interventional diagnosis and treatment devices for acute and severe cardiovascular diseases to be deployed quic...