ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,026, issued on June 23, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Sensor comprising an interconnect and an interventional medical device using the same" was invented by Johannes Wilhelmus Weekamp (Beek en Donk, Netherlands), Vincent Andrianus Henneken (Utrecht, Netherlands), Marcel Mulder (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Marcus Cornelis Louwerse (Nijmegen, Netherlands) and Arjen Van der Horst (Tilburg, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor has a sensor element (5) with two opposite sides (11, 9) and an interconnect (7) with first and second terminal segments (13B, 13F) interconnected by an intermediat...