US Patent Issued to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY on Aug. 19 for "Intravascular doppler blood flow measurement from intravascular guidewire for blood vessel assessment" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,166, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY Corp. (San Diego).

"Intravascular doppler blood flow measurement from intravascular guidewire for blood vessel assessment" was invented by Hoi San Wu (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Ronald Christiaan Helmstrijd (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Reinoud Bosman (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Martijn Anne Van Lavieren (Abcoude, Netherlands), David Michael Anderson (Temecula, Calif.), Arjen Van Der Horst (Tilburg, Netherlands), Duy Le (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Chantal Nathalie Van Den Broek (Schijndel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular blood flow sensing syste...