US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on May 12 for "Self expanding stent system with imaging" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,752, issued on May 12, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Self expanding stent system with imaging" was invented by Michael Sean Owens (Victoria, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In exemplary examples, methods and systems for treating vascular disease by implanting a stent within the vasculature and using intravascular imaging to determine and ensure that the stent was property implanted and producing a desirable and effective results is disclosed herein. For example, a system may obtain optical shape sensing data and intravascular imaging data for a blood vessel. The system may process the optical...