US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Jan. 13 for "Apparatus, system and method for identifying subintimal path of a flexible elongated device" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,182, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus, system and method for identifying subintimal path of a flexible elongated device" was invented by Roland Wilhelmus Maria Bullens (Mierlo, Netherlands) and Ahmet Ekin (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus and computer-implemented method for identifying subintimal path of a flexible elongated device (10) through a lumen. The apparatus comprises a memory storing data processing instructions configured with curvature-related parameters to process shape- and/or position-relat...