US Patent Issued to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY on Dec. 30 for "Strain relief for intraluminal ultrasound imaging and associated devices, systems, and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,984, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY Corp. (San Diego).

"Strain relief for intraluminal ultrasound imaging and associated devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Maritess Minas (San Diego) and Jeremy Stigall (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intraluminal imaging devices and methods of assembling the intraluminal imaging devices are provided. For example, an intraluminal imaging device can include a flexible elongate catheter body and a rigid imaging assembly coupled to a distal portion of the elongate catheter body. A distal portion of the inner member is positioned within a lumen...