US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 15 for "Catheter motor drive unit that facilitates combined optical coherence tomography and fluorescence-lifetime imaging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,163, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Catheter motor drive unit that facilitates combined optical coherence tomography and fluorescence-lifetime imaging" was invented by Julien Bec (Davis, Calif.) and Laura Marcu (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system includes a catheter with an internal optical fiber that carries an optical beam and an optical element, which reflects the optical beam substantially orthogonal to a rotational axis of the catheter and is coupled to the end of the optical fiber. A motor drive unit (MDU) is coupled to the catheter, wherei...