US Patent Issued to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY on Jan. 27 for "Registration of intraluminal physiological data to longitudinal image body lumen using extraluminal imaging data" (Dutch, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,100, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY Corp. (San Diego).

"Registration of intraluminal physiological data to longitudinal image body lumen using extraluminal imaging data" was invented by Asher Cohen (San Diego), Pei-Yin Chao (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Ronald Christiaan Helmstrijd (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Efrat Preisler (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor circuit that receives intravascular imaging data from an intravascular imaging catheter, an x-ray image from an x-ray imaging device, and intravascular pressure data from an intravascular pressure-sensing guid...