US Patent Issued to City, University of London on May 12 for "System for monitoring anastomoses" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,633, issued on May 12, was assigned to City, University of London (London).

"System for monitoring anastomoses" was invented by Panicos Kyriacou (London), Mohamed Thaha (London) and Karthik Budidha (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring anastomoses is provided. The system includes a probe and a control module in connection with the probe.The probe includes optical sensor assemblies. Each sensor assembly includes an optical emitter and an optical detector The sensor assemblies are spaced from one another so that following insertion of the probe into a lumen of a subject, the sensor assemblies can interrogate lim...