US Patent Issued to Otsuka Medical Devices on Jan. 20 for "Methods and systems for determining body lumen size" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,494, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Otsuka Medical Devices Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Methods and systems for determining body lumen size" was invented by Liang Zhai (Belmont, Calif.), Eric Dailey (San Jose, Calif.), James D. Mazzone (San Jose, Calif.), Robin Bek (Campbell, Calif.), Neil Barman (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Shruthi Thirumalai (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue treatment system and method of using the tissue treatment system determines a size of a body lumen, or a neuromodulation parameter corresponding to the size of the body lumen. The tissue treatment system fills a balloon with a fluid when the balloo...