ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,412, issued on July 22, was assigned to Pulmonx Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for endobronchial diagnosis" was invented by Surag Mantri (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of diagnosing an air leak in a lung compartment of a patient may include: advancing a diagnostic catheter into an airway leading to the lung compartment; inflating an occluding member on the catheter to form a seal with a wall of the airway and thus isolate the lung compartment; measuring air pressure within the lung compartment during multiple breaths, using the diagnostic catheter; displaying the measured air pressure a...