US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on March 24 for "Methods and systems for an invasive deployable device using a shape memory material to reconfigure transducer elements in response to stimuli" (French, American, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,378, issued on March 24, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for an invasive deployable device using a shape memory material to reconfigure transducer elements in response to stimuli" was invented by Edouard Da Cruz (Nice, France), Flavien Daloz (Biot, France), Kevin M. Durocher (Waterford, N.Y.), Reinhold Brustle (Frankenburg, Austria), Bruno Haider (Rehoboth, Del.) and Giandonato Stallone (Nice, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deployable invasive device includes a transducer with a plurality of elements with linked by at least one shape memory material, the at least one shape...