US Patent Issued to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY on Aug. 11 for "Preview of intraluminal ultrasound image along longitudinal view of body lumen" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,384, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY Corp. (San Diego).

"Preview of intraluminal ultrasound image along longitudinal view of body lumen" was invented by Emily Winkler Brown (Amsterdam) and Ronald Christiaan Helmstrijd (Best, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A co-registration system includes a processor circuit that displays a preview intravascular image along a longitudinal view of a blood vessel. The processor circuit receives, from an x-ray imaging device, x-ray images of the blood vessel while an intravascular catheter/guidewire moves through the blood vessel. The processor circuit receive...