ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,826, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to VERSONO MEDICAL Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).
"Determining the condition of vessels in the body" was invented by Finbar Dolan (Galway, Ireland), Dion Guilfoyle (Galway, Ireland), Ben Kinsella (Galway, Ireland), Ivan Mooney (Galway, Ireland), Hugh O'Donoghue (Galway, Ireland), Mary O'Donoghue (Galway, Ireland) and Jim Smedley (Galway, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Endovascular apparatus for determining the condition of a vessel in a body comprises an elongate waveguide element such as a wire and an activation unit comprising a source of ultrasonic energy to activate the waveguide element, hence...