US Patent Issued to Medlumics on Feb. 25 for "Methods, devices, and support structures for assembling optical fibers in catheter tips" (Spanish, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,807, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Medlumics S.L. (Madrid).

"Methods, devices, and support structures for assembling optical fibers in catheter tips" was invented by Sara Mas Gomez (Tres Cantos, Spain), Juan Sancho Dura (Tres Cantos, Spain), David Gonzalez Villar (San Sebastian de los Reyes, Spain), Matthieu Duperron (Madrid), Carlos Sanz Moreno (Madrid), Alexandre Romoscanu (Geneva) and Jorge H. Jimenez (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter includes proximal and distal sections, a shaft coupled between the proximal and distal sections, and optical fibers extending through the shaft and to the distal section of the ...