ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,052, issued on April 7, was assigned to THERACLION SA (Malakoff, France).
"Method and device for localizing a vein within a limb" was invented by Michel Nuta (Gentilly, France), Jeremie Anquez (Paris) and Anthony Grisey (Saint Cyr l'Ecole, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of localizing and preferably visualizing a vein within a limb, preferably within a leg, of a patient, with an imaging device. The method includes the following steps of: fully or partially collapsing at least a segment of the vein to be localized at a collapsing site during a collapsing step; inducing blood flow within the vein at the collapsing site, ...