US Patent Issued to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY on Feb. 17 for "Co-registration of intravascular and extravascular imaging for extravascular image with intravascular tissue morphology" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,195, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY Corp. (San Diego).

"Co-registration of intravascular and extravascular imaging for extravascular image with intravascular tissue morphology" was invented by Sara Rose Chen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided that includes a processor circuit in communication with an intravascular imaging catheter. The processor circuit is operable to: receive an intravascular imaging signal; perform, tissue characterization to identify a plaque component of the blood vessel; generate an intravascular image; receive an extravascular image of a blood vessel;...