US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed, BOLT MEDICAL on May 13 for "System and method for maintaining balloon integrity within intravascular lithotripsy device with plasma generator" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,654, issued on May 13, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.) and BOLT MEDICAL INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"System and method for maintaining balloon integrity within intravascular lithotripsy device with plasma generator" was invented by Daniel Frank Massimini (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Roger W. McGowan (Otsego, Minn.), Jeffrey Steven Fuller (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Jeffrey S. Lindquist (Maple Grove, Minn.), Dave Parsons (Hanover, Minn.) and Eric Schultheis (San Clemente, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter system (100) for treating a treatment site (106) within or adjacent to the vessel wall of a b...