US Patent Issued to Olympus Medical Systems on Sept. 1 for "Radial ultrasound capsule and system" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,591, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Olympus Medical Systems Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radial ultrasound capsule and system" was invented by Jason T. Panzenbeck (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reusable rotating ultrasound capsule for mounting to a distal end of a catheter. An exemplary device includes a motor compartment having a proximal face and a distal end. A sensor compartment includes a cap that seals with the motor compartment. A motor located within the motor compartment includes a drive component and a shaft rotatably coupled to the drive component and extending distally from the motor compartment into the sensor c...