US Patent Issued to Berner Fachhochschule, Technik und Informatik on Feb. 24 for "Catheter comprising a flexible flat cable and FPCB and method for producing it" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,518, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Berner Fachhochschule, Technik und Informatik (Biel, Switzerland).

"Catheter comprising a flexible flat cable and FPCB and method for producing it" was invented by Thomas Niederhauser (Oberwangen b. Bern, Switzerland), Gerhard Kuert (Magglingen, Switzerland), Marcel Jacomet (Lengnau, Switzerland) and Reto Andreas Wildhaber (Olten, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter includes a catheter tube and a Flexible Printed Circuit Board, FPCB, wherein the FPCB covers essentially the catheter circumference for predetermined FPCB transducer segment length, especially at the distal portion...