ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,548, issued on March 24, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo).
"In vivo temperature control system" was invented by Hajime Sakakibara (Otsu, Japan), Tatsufumi Nomura (Tokyo), Hiroki Nakajima (Otsu, Japan), Akinori Matsukuma (Otsu, Japan) and Jun Mikami (Otsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in vivo temperature control system includes a catheter insertable into a biological lumen; two or more temperature sensors placed such that they can measure a temperature distribution in a longitudinal direction of the biological lumen; a liquid storage section that stores a liquid; and a control section that estimates a spatial ...