ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,631, issued on June 10, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Guidance for treatment of a chronic total occlusion" was invented by Vincent Maurice Andre Auvray (Meudon, France), Raoul Florent (Ville D'Avray, France) and Caroline Denise Francoise Raynaud (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a guidance for treatment of a chronic total occlusion. In order to provide improved guidance information for chronic total occlusion treatment, a device (10) for guidance for treatment of a chronic total occlusion is provided that comprises an image supply (12), a data processor (14) a...