US Patent Issued to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY on March 11 for "Devices, systems, and methods for assessing a vessel" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,844, issued on March 11, was assigned to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY Corp. (San Diego).

"Devices, systems, and methods for assessing a vessel" was invented by Jinhyoung Park (Rancho Cordova, Calif.) and Fergus Merritt (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular system includes at least one pressure-sensing instrument sized and shaped for introduction into a vessel of a patient; a processing unit in communication with the pressure-sensing instrument, the processing unit configured to: obtain proximal pressure measurements for at least one cardiac cycle of the patient while the pressure-sensing instrument ...