ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,228, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (Cleveland).

"High resolution intravascular ultrasound (H-IVUS)" was invented by Aaron Fleischman (Beachwood, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High-resolution intravascular ultrasound (H-IVUS) operates under a large acoustic bandwidth, provides high resolution while maintaining good depth penetration, and exhibits other favorable characteristics like focused imaging. A H-IVUS transducer assembly can be manufactured at a low cost using conventional methods commonly utilized in the microelectronics industry. The H-IVUS transducer assembly can include a printed c...