ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,023, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Wuhan University of Technology (Hubei, China).

"Temperature self-compensation interventional optical fiber pressure guidewire and wireless FFR monitor" was invented by Tianliang Li (Hubei, China), Jianglin Zhu (Hubei, China), Tao Huang (Hubei, China), Haotian Zhou (Hubei, China) and Zichun Cao (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature self-compensation interventional optical fiber pressure guidewire includes: a first guidewire section, a second guidewire section, and a third guidewire section that are arranged in sequence and are hollow, and a fiber bragg grating (FBG)-Fabry-Pe...