US Patent Issued to PRC CARDIO-OPTIC on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for navigating, opening and cleaning plaque or total occlusion in arteries" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,138, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to PRC CARDIO-OPTIC (Haifa, Israel).

"Systems and methods for navigating, opening and cleaning plaque or total occlusion in arteries" was invented by Arie Huber (Haifa, Israel) and Danny Rittman (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vascular guide wire device comprising: a guide wire comprising a guide wire head and a laser-acoustic head sensor configured to navigate in a patient's blood vessel, said laser-acoustic head sensor connected via an optic fiber threaded through said guide wire device with a laser-acoustic diode controlled by a laser-acoustic diode controller; a computerized system e...