US Patent Issued to CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL on Aug. 25 for "System for determining location inside body" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,835, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL (Gwangju, South Korea).

"System for determining location inside body" was invented by Ja Hae Kim (Gwangju, South Korea) and Yun Chul Park (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for in vivo location determination of a balloon catheter according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a detector configured to detect proximity of a radioactive material, a guide wire provided to be inserted into a body, an intermediate member which has a radioactive material detected by the detector, and is configured to be inserted into the bo...