US Patent Issued to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY on Dec. 2 for "Extraluminal imaging based intraluminal therapy guidance systems, devices, and methods" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,970, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY Corp. (San Diego).

"Extraluminal imaging based intraluminal therapy guidance systems, devices, and methods" was invented by Pieter J. Van Der Zaag (Waalre, Netherlands) and John Arthur Pedersen (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular therapy guidance system includes a processor circuit in communication with an extravascular imaging device. The processor circuit receives, from the extravascular imaging device, an extravascular image stream. The processor circuit determines a therapy region of a blood vessel in the extravascular image stream...