US Patent Issued to Piccolo Medical on Jan. 13 for "Devices and methods for vascular navigation, assessment and/or diagnosis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,036, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Piccolo Medical Inc. (San Francisco).

"Devices and methods for vascular navigation, assessment and/or diagnosis" was invented by Alexey Salamini (San Francisco), Jonathan Silberstein (San Francisco), John Mckenzie (San Carlos, Calif.), Daniel R. Burnett (San Francisco) and Eric Yu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for vascular navigation, assessment and/or diagnosis are disclosed where a location detection system generally includes an elongate body defining a lumen at least partially along a length of the elongate body. One or more sensors are positioned near or ...