US Patent Issued to Piccolo Medical on Oct. 7 for "Devices and methods for vascular navigation, assessment and/or diagnosis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,505, issued on Oct. 7, 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), Eric Yu (San Francisco) and Daniel R. Burnett (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 described which determine the location of the tip of a vascular catheter using the introduction of a medium with a measurable parameter (e.g., temperature, light reflection, sound reflection, etc.) and sensing and measuring the measurable parameter as the catheter is adva...