US Patent Issued to BIOTRONIK on Jan. 13 for "Dynamic derivation of the inflation behavior of a dilation catheter" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,533, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BIOTRONIK AG (Buelach, Switzerland).

"Dynamic derivation of the inflation behavior of a dilation catheter" was invented by Bodo Quint (Dettighofen, Germany) and Fabian Risch (Doerflingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A balloon catheter system has a catheter with a catheter shaft surrounding a lumen. A balloon is connected to a distal end of the catheter shaft such that a fluid inflation medium can be introduced into or removed from a balloon interior via the lumen. A pressure sensor is configured to measure an instantaneous pressure (p) of the inflation medium in the lumen during ...