US Patent Issued to Advanced Interventional Cardiovascular Solutions on Dec. 2 for "Non-occluding balloon for cardiovascular drug delivery" (Minnesota, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,253, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Advanced Interventional Cardiovascular Solutions LLC (Plano, Texas).

"Non-occluding balloon for cardiovascular drug delivery" was invented by Vijay Sitharam Ramanath (Plano, Texas) and Brett Allyn Williams (North Oaks, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-occluding drug-coated balloon catheter device for use in a blood vessel transporting blood comprises a catheter shaft including a guidewire lumen, a fluid lumen and a connector port. A balloon is mounted on the catheter shaft and includes an outer envelope surrounding the guidewire lumen in fluid communication with the fluid lumen; a drug ...