ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,076, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Bolt Medical Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Multiplexer for laser-driven intravascular lithotripsy device" was invented by Christopher A. Cook (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Gerald D. Bacher (Carlsbad, Calif.), Eric Schultheis (San Clemente, Calif.), Mina Mossayebi (Irvine, Calif.), Wenjie Xie (La Crescenta, Calif.) and Yu Liu (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating a vascular lesion within or adjacent to a vessel wall within a body of a patient by generating a plasma that creates pressure waves adjacent to the vascular lesion, includes the steps of (i) generating light energy...