US Patent Issued to The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System on Jan. 13 for "System and method for cardiac pressure measurement" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,024, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"System and method for cardiac pressure measurement" was invented by Daniel Johnson (Houston), Richard L. Kirkeeide (Kingwood, Texas), Bernard De Bruyne (Brussels), K. Lance Gould (Houston) and Nils Johnson (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring cardiac pressure includes positioning a fluid-filled catheter and a pressure wire sensor at a cardiac pressure calibration location. A first pressure measurement is acquired from the fluid-filled catheter and a second pressure measurement is acquired from the...