US Patent Issued to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY on July 8 for "Intravascular pressure devices incorporating sensors manufactured using deep reactive ion etching" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,024, issued on July 8, was assigned to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY Corp. (San Diego).

"Intravascular pressure devices incorporating sensors manufactured using deep reactive ion etching" was invented by Paul Douglas Corl (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular pressure sensor assembly is disclosed herein that is produced in part using photolithography and DRIE solid-state device production processes. Using DRIE production processes facilitates a number of features that could not be readily incorporated in sensor chips fabricated using mechanical saws. In accordance with a first feature, sensor chips are crea...