MUMBAI, India, May 16 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517018026 A) filed by Goodman Co. Ltd., Aichi, Japan, on Feb. 28, for 'balloon catheter and method of manufacturing same.'
Inventor(s) include Okamoto, Mitsumasa; Kondo, Shoma; Nakamura, Yuta; and Yamamoto, Shuhei.
The application for the patent was published on May 16, under issue no. 20/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A balloon 13 of a balloon catheter 10 has a cylindrical straight pipe section 13c, the diameter of which becomes maximum when inflated. The straight pipe section 13c has provided thereto linear protrusions 20 that protrude from the surface of the straight pipe section 13c and linearly e...