ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,544, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Imsonic Medical China Inc. (Kunshan, China).

"Intracardiac ultrasound probe and catheter system" was invented by Xiaohui Hao (Kunshan, China), Yaochun Xu (Kunshan, China) and Xiaohui Nie (Kunshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intracardiac ultrasound probe and a catheter system. An innovative design of flexible circuit boards and multi-core coaxial cables are used. The flexible circuit boards are extended in length or width, and the multi-core coaxial cables are configured to connect to the flexible circuit boards, so that a thickness and width of the flexible circuit boards soldered wi...