ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,188, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY Corp. (San Diego).

"Graphical longitudinal display for intraluminal ultrasound imaging and associated devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Pei-Yin Chao (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Anuja Nair (San Diego), Nikhil Sreedhar Rajguru (San Diego) and Yvonne Gillis (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an intraluminal ultrasound imaging system, including a processor circuit in communication with an intraluminal ultrasound imaging catheter, and configured to receive a plurality of intraluminal ultrasound images obtained by the imaging catheter while ...