ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,975, issued on May 26, was assigned to THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS, AND THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN (Dublin).

"Ultrasound based three-dimensional lesion verification within a vasculature" was invented by Christoph Hennersperger (Muhldorf, Germany), Andrew Bourke (Dublin) and Fionn Lahart (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter-based ultrasound imaging system configured to provide a full circumferential 360-degree view around an intra-vascular/intra-cardiac imaging-catheter-head by generating a three-dimensional view of the tissue su...