US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on March 17 for "Atherectomy guidance through photoacoustic signal analysis" (Massachusetts, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,884, issued on March 17, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Atherectomy guidance through photoacoustic signal analysis" was invented by Ramon Quido Erkamp (Swampscott, Mass.), Alvin Chen (Cambridge, Mass.), Shyam Bharat (Arlington, Mass.), Mingxin Zheng (Cambridge, Mass.), Grzegorz Andrzej Toporek (Cambridge, Mass.) and James David Cezo (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, Apparatuses, and Systems of operating a laser atherectomy system to perform an endoscopic atherectomy procedure within a vessel at a therapeutic region of an anatomical condition by use of an atherectomy...