US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on July 7 for "Systems, catheters, drive units, and methods for automatic catheter identification" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,847, issued on July 7, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Systems, catheters, drive units, and methods for automatic catheter identification" was invented by Joe Corrigan (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Peter Thornton Jr. (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter for an ultrasound system can a marker disposed on the hub. The marker is optically or magnetically readable and, when read, identifies the catheter. A drive unit can include an optical or magnetic marker reader. Alternatively or additionally, a catheter may include an active memory arrangement that can be read by an appropri...