US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on May 12 for "Fiber-optic realshape sensor for enhanced doppler measurement display" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,672, issued on May 12, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Fiber-optic realshape sensor for enhanced doppler measurement display" was invented by Bharat Ramachandran (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Emil George Radulescu (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Doppler ultrasound system for executing Doppler ultrasound tests. The Doppler ultrasound system employs an ultrasound probe (40), a vessel FORS sensor (20) and a Doppler ultrasound controller (60). In operation, an ultrasound probe (40) transmits an ultrasound beam through a bodily vessel (e.g., a blood vessel) for generating imaging ...