ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,353, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Zed Medical Inc. (Livermore, Calif.).

"Multiple sensor catheter assembly" was invented by Thomas C. Moore (Livermore, Calif.), Donald Masters (Sylmar, Calif.) and Robert H. Fenton (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound imaging device includes a substrate, an ultrasound transducer array mounted on the substrate, a pressure sensor mounted on the substrate, and an integrated circuit mounted on the substrate and operatively connected to the ultrasound transducer array and to the pressure sensor. The integrated circuit includes a memory that is programmable to store a ...