ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,361, issued on April 14, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Ultrasonic imaging system and method" was invented by Donald Masters (Sylmar, Calif.), Jesus Andres Lopez (Bloomington, Calif.), Shephal Kirit Doshi (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Eric Stoppenhagen (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ICE imaging system is disclosed, which comprises an Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) catheter having a longitudinal axis, a proximal end, and a distal end. The ICE catheter corresponds to a micro-electromechanical (MEMS) or other transducer based phased array ultrasound catheter with an out d...