US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on May 12 for "Integrated cardiac mapping and piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) ultrasonic imaging catheter system and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,670, issued on May 12, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Integrated cardiac mapping and piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducer (pMUT) ultrasonic imaging catheter system and method" was invented by Donald Masters (Sylmar, Calif.), Jesus Andres Lopez (Bloomington, Calif.) and Eric Stoppenhagen (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated cardiac mapping and Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (pMUT) ultrasonic imaging system, is disclosed. The system comprising a pMUT imaging and mapping catheter having a longitudinal axis, a proximal end, and a distal end...