ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,428, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MICRO-TECH (NANJING) Co. LTD. (Nanjing, China).

"Imaging catheter, tip, tube body and medical device" was invented by Jiwei Wang (Jiangsu, China), Xiaochun Li (Jiangsu, China) and Duangui Gao (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging catheter, a tip, a tube body and a medical device, relating to the field of medical instruments, where the imaging catheter includes a tube body and a tip, the tube body includes a first shuttling wall and a second shuttling wall, a first lumen is formed between the first shuttling wall and the second shuttling wall, the tip includes a first mountin...