US Patent Issued to INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE (INSERM)-RAISON SOCIALE OBSOLETE, CENTRE LEON BERARD, UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, CENTRE HOSPITALIER NATIONAL D'OPTHALMOLOGIE QUINZE-VINGTS on Nov. 4 for "Computer-implemented method and apparatus for characterizing a flexible tube" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,371, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE (INSERM)-RAISON SOCIALE OBSOLETE (Paris), CENTRE LEON BERARD (Lyons, France), UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1 (Villeurbanne, France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris) and CENTRE HOSPITALIER NATIONAL D'OPTHALMOLOGIE QUINZE-VINGTS (Paris).

"Computer-implemented method and apparatus for characterizing a flexible tube" was invented by Michael Atlan (Paris), Stefan Catheline (Lyons, France), Gabrielle Laloy-Borgna (Lyons, France) and Leo Puyo (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This computer-implemented method a...